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“Two hearts that are but one have shown their strength in fierce enmity.”

Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival

Hie hânt zwei herzen einvalt
Mit hazze erzeiget ir gewalt.
Bk. 14, st. 689, line 28; p. 345.
Parzival

“I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.”

Robert Browning In a Balcony

In a Balcony.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Without strength, masculinity becomes something else- a different concept.”

Jack Donovan (1974) American activist, editor and writer

Pg 25
The Way of Men (2012)
Context: Without strength, masculinity becomes something else- a different concept. Strength is not an arbitrary value assigned by human cultures. Increased strength is one of the fundamental biological differences between males and females. Aside from basic reproductive plumbing, greater strength is one of the most prominent, historically consequential and consistently measurable physical differences between males and females.

“There are a great many suicides to which this thought imparts a common strength.”

Hermann Hesse book Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf (1927)
Context: He gained strength through familiarity with the thought that the emergency exit stood always open and became curious, too, to taste his suffering to the dregs. If it went too badly with him he could feel sometimes with a grim malicious pleasure: “I am curious to see all the same just how much man can endure. If the limit of what is bearable is reached, I have only to open the door to escape.” There are a great many suicides to which this thought imparts a common strength.

“His form combined in one the strength of a man and a woman's grace.”

Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 3
Context: The sound of the trumpets died away and Orlando stood stark naked. No human being, since the world began, has ever looked more ravishing. His form combined in one the strength of a man and a woman's grace.

“All that sternness amid charm,
All that sweetness amid strength?”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Peace http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1564/ The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) Context: Ah, that Time could touch a form That could show what Homer's age Bred to be a hero's wage. 'Were not all her life but a storm, Would not painters pain a form Of such noble lines,' I said, 'Such a delicate high head, All that sternness amid charm, All that sweetness amid strength? Ah, but peace that comes at length, Came when Time had touched her form.

“And Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.”

Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 17, p. 85.
Leviathan (1651)
Context: For the Lawes of Nature (as Justice, Equity, Modesty, Mercy, and (in summe)doing to others, as wee would be done to,) of themselves, without the terrour of some Power, to cause them to be observed, are contrary to our naturall Passions, that carry us to Partiality, Pride, Revenge, and the like. And Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.