Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength read more

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit
still.

Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.

Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.

Cunning is strength withheld.

Cunning is strength withheld.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Thy shoes shall be of iron and brass: and as thy days, so shall
thy strength be.

Thy shoes shall be of iron and brass: and as thy days, so shall
thy strength be.

O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like read more

O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if read more

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.