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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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• Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Strong

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• When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Brain, Answers

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• The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Weakness, Principles, Fellowship

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• Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month's labor in the farmer's almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Men, Style

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

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• It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Hurt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strong, Unhappy, Woven

  "War Within and Without". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1980.

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• With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and militarily. So when people ask what's the best course of action for the U.S.-China relationship, I can give you ten academic responses. But the reality is we need to rebuild our core.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Reality, People, Giving

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• When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Attitude, Reason

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• Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Melting, Resistance, Heat

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section 3,

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• I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

  Ida Tarbell

  Strong, Real, Mistake

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• There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Strong, People, Weakness

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• I take this pain, Lord Jesus,
  From Thine own hand;
  The strength to bear it bravely
  Thou wilt command.
  I am too weak for effort.
  So let me rest,
  In hush of sweet submission
  On Thine own breast.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Sweet, Jesus, Pain

  Frances Ridley Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, Frances Anna Shaw (1888). “Poetical Works”

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• Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.

  Edward Witten

  Strong, Cousin, Progress

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• Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Women, Passion

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• Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Ignorance, Understanding, Gullibility

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.629

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• Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Prayer, Eye, Heart

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• Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

  Josh Billings

  Parent, Age, Ancestry

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• I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Men, Heaven

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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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, Weak Man, People

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

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• A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Discipline, Vigor

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.865

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• Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Humility, Quality, Spirit

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• The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Strong, Conflict, Difficulty

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• And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

  Mary McGrory

  Leadership, Women, People

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• Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

  Will Durant

  Dream, War, Civilization

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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