He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. - Willia

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. – William Samuel Johnson

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This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work – they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. – Frederick Law Olmsted

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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you dont just turn it off one day. – Chinua Achebe

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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other. – Barbra Streisand

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Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact. – Gijs de Vries

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