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Across a wide range of literary works, "strength" conveys multiple dimensions beyond mere muscle or force. It is portrayed as a celestial or natural power, as when the sun's dazzling might is depicted with almost sentient grandeur [1] or invoked in ancient imagery to bestow superhuman qualities [2]. At the same time, strength often symbolizes inner resolve and capacity for endurance, from the fatigue of continual demands on one's spirit [3] to the resurgence of inner vigor found in moments of deep emotional or moral challenge [4, 5]. Moreover, the term spans both physical might—as seen in descriptions of robust warriors and mighty armies [6, 7]—and the more subtle empowerment of the human soul in the face of suffering or weakness [8, 9]. Thus, literature employs "strength" to articulate a rich interplay between physical power, emotional resilience, and spiritual fortitude [10, 11, 12].
  1. The sun rejoices in his strength, dazzling and burning, and yet, to me, never unpleasantly weakening.
    — from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman
  2. A certain image of Apollo, which stood in a sacred cave at Hylae near Magnesia, was thought to impart superhuman strength.
    — from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer
  3. I am weary of this continual call upon me for strength.
    — from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  4. It seemed to her as if strength poured into her in electric streams, from every gentle touch and movement of the sleeping, confiding child.
    — from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  5. Thy strength, Hester; but let it be guided by the will which God hath granted me!
    — from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  6. And winning them over to his side, the son of Kunti, possessed of great strength, marched against Magadha.
    — from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1
  7. And now on the very goal Cloanthus alone is left; him he pursues and presses hard, straining all his strength.
    — from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
  8. Benjamin reached New York safely, and concluded to stop there until he had gained strength enough to proceed further.
    — from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs
  9. When I recovered strength enough, I faced the wall again.
    — from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
  10. (Mine be the strength of spirit fierce and free.)
    — from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
  11. elicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulses dance and my heart sing.
    — from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  12. He was now a very energetic man indeed, with great firmness of purpose, strength of resolution, and vigour of action.
    — from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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