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FORTITUDE

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fortitude substantiv

tărie, fermitate, curaj; tărie de caracter, dârzenie.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Do you remember—hear what I say, with fortitude—think of your great object!—do you remember Martha?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She avoided the looks of them all, could neither eat nor speak, and after some time, on her mother's silently pressing her hand with tender compassion, her small degree of fortitude was quite overcome, she burst into tears and left the room.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Her character was now fixed on his mind as perfection itself, maintaining the loveliest medium of fortitude and gentleness; but he was obliged to acknowledge that only at Uppercross had he learnt to do her justice, and only at Lyme had he begun to understand himself.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I had always felt my weakness, in comparison with her constancy and fortitude; and now I felt it more and more.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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