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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.Showing Quotes on weakness
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In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.Showing Quotes on weakness
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.Showing Quotes on weakness
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.Showing Quotes on weakness
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.Showing Quotes on weakness
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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.Showing Quotes on weakness
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It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own familyShowing Quotes on weakness
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polishShowing Quotes on weakness
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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure headShowing Quotes on weakness
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If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.Showing Quotes on weakness
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.Showing Quotes on weakness
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Quote 2989
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without a vision is a nightmare.Showing Quotes on weakness
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreamsShowing Quotes on weakness
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The mosquito knows full well that he is small, he is a beast of preyShowing Quotes on weakness
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogativesShowing Quotes on weakness
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.Showing Quotes on weakness
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strengthShowing Quotes on weakness
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A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwardsShowing Quotes on weakness
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This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a characterShowing Quotes on weakness
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Female personality is insubstantiality ennobled by unconsciousnessShowing Quotes on weakness
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great objectShowing Quotes on weakness
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomesShowing Quotes on weakness
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily painsShowing Quotes on weakness
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you winShowing Quotes on weakness
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teachingShowing Quotes on weakness
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinionsShowing Quotes on weakness
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The university brings out all abilities, including incapabilityShowing Quotes on weakness
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitualShowing Quotes on weakness
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromisedShowing Quotes on weakness
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowelsShowing Quotes on weakness
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellectShowing Quotes on weakness
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The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselvesShowing Quotes on weakness
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person lessShowing Quotes on weakness
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speakingShowing Quotes on weakness
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He who did most, shall bear most; the strongest shall stand the most weakShowing Quotes on weakness
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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless membersShowing Quotes on weakness
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.Showing Quotes on weakness
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always doneShowing Quotes on weakness
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Showing Quotes on weakness
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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heavenShowing Quotes on weakness
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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sightedShowing Quotes on weakness
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The weak in courage is strong in cunningShowing Quotes on weakness
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrainedShowing Quotes on weakness
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weaknessShowing Quotes on weakness
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Quote 2015
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defenseShowing Quotes on weakness
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Quote 2000
In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lostShowing Quotes on weakness
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Quote 1997
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weaknessShowing Quotes on weakness
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Quote 1981
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorantShowing Quotes on weakness
Quote 1926
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable loveShowing Quotes on weakness
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.Showing Quotes on weakness
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecutionShowing Quotes on weakness
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform mannerShowing Quotes on weakness
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Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudiceShowing Quotes on weakness
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerableShowing Quotes on weakness
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Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisibleShowing Quotes on weakness
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human natureShowing Quotes on weakness
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No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory inShowing Quotes on weakness
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of othersShowing Quotes on weakness
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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senileShowing Quotes on weakness
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People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselvesShowing Quotes on weakness
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeatedShowing Quotes on weakness
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongsShowing Quotes on weakness
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtuesShowing Quotes on weakness
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To err is human; to forgive, divineShowing Quotes on weakness
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidityShowing Quotes on weakness
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtuesShowing Quotes on weakness
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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experienceShowing Quotes on weakness
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old ageShowing Quotes on weakness
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soulShowing Quotes on weakness
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All diseases run into one, old ageShowing Quotes on weakness
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She lacks the indefinable charm of weaknessShowing Quotes on weakness
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakenedShowing Quotes on weakness
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Without sunshine a flower cannot live. Even a marriage can’t liveShowing Quotes on weakness
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husbandShowing Quotes on weakness
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violinShowing Quotes on weakness
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A shoe too large trips one upShowing Quotes on weakness
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of viceShowing Quotes on weakness
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stickShowing Quotes on weakness
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is repleteShowing Quotes on weakness
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energyShowing Quotes on weakness
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Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad exampleShowing Quotes on weakness
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A meal without wine is like a day without sunshineShowing Quotes on weakness
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When in doubt, don’tShowing Quotes on weakness
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at mathShowing Quotes on weakness
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The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make oneShowing Quotes on weakness
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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.Showing Quotes on weakness
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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusesShowing Quotes on weakness
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A feeble body weakens the mindShowing Quotes on weakness
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A room without books is like a life without meaningShowing Quotes on weakness
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It is not possible to fight beyond your strength even if you striveShowing Quotes on weakness
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its sparkShowing Quotes on weakness
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A society without religion is like a vessel without compassShowing Quotes on weakness
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If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strengthShowing Quotes on weakness
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughterShowing Quotes on weakness
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad oneShowing Quotes on weakness
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A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bentShowing Quotes on weakness
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Wedding: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.Showing Quotes on weakness
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more timeShowing Quotes on weakness
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the waterShowing Quotes on weakness
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