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«Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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Friendship
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«Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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«One who is able to withstand the impulse of lust and anger before death is a yogi, and a happy person.»
«Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.»
«Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;) / The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.»
Author: Bible
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«No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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«Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.»
«No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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assault, assaults, No problem, problem, sustained, sustaining, thinking, withstand, withstanding, withstood
«No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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