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Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
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.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
 A mass enormous! which, in modern days
 No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.  
 A mass enormous! which, in modern days
 No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise. 
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care read more
Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.
 In that day's feats,
 When he might act the woman in the scene,
  He prov'd best man read more 
 In that day's feats,
 When he might act the woman in the scene,
  He prov'd best man i' th' field, and for his meed
   Was brow-bound with the oak. 
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.
 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.