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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. – Laurence Sterne

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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. – Laurence Sterne

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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. – Laurence Sterne

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The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao. – Steve Forbes

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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him. – Garrett Fort

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It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. – Chow Ching

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Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength. – Don King

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But the wicked passions of mens hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm. – Algernon H. Blackwood

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