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forcible

«The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | About: Action, Evil, Religion | Keywords: dread, forcible, prospect
«Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.»
Author: Robert Cecil | Keywords: forcible, Six Days, The Week
«Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | Keywords: forcible
«How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? / Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? / Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.»
«When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.»
«Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible,»