Twoscore and Ten.
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”
“For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.”
Act V, scene 12
The Mourning Bride (1697)
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”
“In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.”
“Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.”
Fragment quoted in H. Diels and W. Kranz (eds.) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Vol. II (1952), no. 294; reference taken from Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 261
“But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength”
Letter to Thomas Cushing (1773) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/franklin-the-works-of-benjamin-franklin-vol-vi-letters-and-misc-writings-1772-1775#lf1438-06_head_007.
Context: But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.
“Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.”
