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• No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Jobs, Men

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• It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Weakness, Weak

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.3

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• As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Strong, Attitude

  James Allen (2013). “As a Man Thinketh: The Book of Thoughts, Health and Body, Character, Purpose, Achievement, Visions and Ideals (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Want, Might

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• It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

  Brother Yun

  God, Christian, Religious

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2009). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.3, Hendrickson Publishers

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• A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

  Agatha Christie

  Strong, Men, Dangerous

  "The Under Dog: And Other Stories".

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• The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Strong, Men, Mad

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.295, Wildside Press LLC

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• When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Strong, Men, Evil

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.2209, Delphi Classics

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• When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wise, Men, Woods

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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  Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• Strong women only marry weak men.

  Bette Davis

  Girly, Strong Women, Glitter

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• There is no strong beer, just weak men

  Dan Castellaneta

  Strong, Beer, Men

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• Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Anger, Men, Oil

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• Even weak men when united are powerful.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Powerful, Men, Unity

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• Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, People, Brave

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8467, Delphi Classics

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• There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Fall

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• A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Spiritual, Strong, Reality

  "Starting Strength". Book by Mark Rippetoe, www.newyorker.com. 2005.

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• He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

  Norman Tebbit

  Men, Stupidity, Majors

  "The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt Vol. 3: From Major to Blair". Book by Sarah Curtis, 2000.

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• Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Mistake, Book, Men

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• [On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.

  Catherine the Great

  Heart, Men, Weakness

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• What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Dog, Horse

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• Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Men, Laughing, Mind

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• In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!

  Heath Ledger

  Stupid, Mean, Men

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

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• Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

  Mike Oldfield

  Love, Kings, Men

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• Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Smart, Stupid

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “First Meetings: In Ender's Universe”, p.88, Macmillan

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