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100. “The judges then filed out, disclosing as they did so the various apparatus of the question. The marquise firmly gazed upon the racks and ghastly rings, on which so many had been stretched crying and screaming. She noticed the three buckets of water.”
Alexandre Dumas
Judicial Torture, Unwavering Courage, Gruesome Scenes, Justice, Strength, Fear
103. “Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded to a person; in other words, the weak suffer more, where the trial is the same, than the strong. And, what are the elementary principles, we may ask, which compose human strength? Is it not – more than anything else – exercise, habit, experience?” Alexandre Dumas Strength Proportion, Suffering Weak, Human Principles, Strength, Suffering, Experience
117. “It was not that I didn’t wait, on this occasion, for more, for I was rooted as deeply as I was shaken. Was there a “secret” at Bly – a mystery of Udolpho or an insane, an unmentionable relative kept in unsuspected confinement?” Henry James Roots, Waiting, Strength, Mystery, Instability, Confinement
119. “The will, I believe, is the mystery of mysteries. Who can say beforehand that his will is strong? There are all kinds of indefinable currents moving to and fro between one’s will and one’s inclinations. People talk as if the two things were essentially distinct; on different sides of one’s organism, like the heart and the liver. I believe there is a certain group of circumstances possible for every man, in which his will is destined to snap like a dry twig.” Henry James Willpower, Mystery, Determination, Strength, Circumstances, Snap
Strength Quotes by Famous Authors
100. “The judges then filed out, disclosing as they did so the various apparatus of the question. The marquise firmly gazed upon the racks and ghastly rings, on which so many had been stretched crying and screaming. She noticed the three buckets of water.”
Alexandre Dumas Judicial Torture, Unwavering Courage, Gruesome Scenes, Justice, Strength, Fear
103. “Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded to a person; in other words, the weak suffer more, where the trial is the same, than the strong. And, what are the elementary principles, we may ask, which compose human strength? Is it not – more than anything else – exercise, habit, experience?”
Alexandre Dumas Strength Proportion, Suffering Weak, Human Principles, Strength, Suffering, Experience
117. “It was not that I didn’t wait, on this occasion, for more, for I was rooted as deeply as I was shaken. Was there a “secret” at Bly – a mystery of Udolpho or an insane, an unmentionable relative kept in unsuspected confinement?”
Henry James Roots, Waiting, Strength, Mystery, Instability, Confinement
119. “The will, I believe, is the mystery of mysteries. Who can say beforehand that his will is strong? There are all kinds of indefinable currents moving to and fro between one’s will and one’s inclinations. People talk as if the two things were essentially distinct; on different sides of one’s organism, like the heart and the liver. I believe there is a certain group of circumstances possible for every man, in which his will is destined to snap like a dry twig.”
Henry James Willpower, Mystery, Determination, Strength, Circumstances, Snap
