The string o'erstretched breaks, and the music flies; / The string o'erslack is dumb, and music dies; / Tune us the sitar neither low nor high. Sir Edwin Arnold.
The string that jars / When rudely touch'd, ungrateful to the sense, / With pleasure feels the master's flying fingers, / Swells into harmony and charms the hearers. Rowe.
The stroke that comes transmitted through 30 a whole galaxy of elastic balls, is it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck and sent flying? Carlyle.
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as those of the sword need swiftness. Julia W. Howe.
The strong man is the wise man; the man with the gift of method, of faithfulness, of valour; who has insight into what is what, into what will follow out of what, the eye to see and the hand to do. Carlyle.
The strong mind is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength. Carlyle.
The strong must build stout cabins for the weak; / Must plan and stint; must sow and reap and store; / For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak. Eugene Lee-Hamilton.
The strong thing is the just thing: this thou 35 wilt find throughout in our world;—as indeed was God and Truth the maker of it, or was Satan and Falsehood? Carlyle.
The strong torrents, which in their own gladness fill the hills with hollow thunder and the vales with winding light, have yet their bounden charge of field to feed and barge to bear. Ruskin.
The strongest arm is impotent to impart momentum to a feather. Schopenhauer.