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fortify
«Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.»
Author: Brian Aldiss
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«The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
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«Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.»
«He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.»
«And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? / Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.»
Author: Bible
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«A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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«It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would be of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself ''superior.''»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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«Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men»
«We fortify in paper and in figures, Using the names of men instead of men, Like one that draws the model of an house Beyond his power to build»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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