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• Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Lying, Heart, Mean

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• It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Beautiful, Ignorant, Immature

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (2007). “Vegetarianism and Occultism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And sometimes I remember days of old
  When fellowship seemed not so far to seek,
  And all the world and I seemed much less cold,
  And at the rainbow's foot lay surely gold,
  And hope felt strong, and life itself not weak.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Feet, Rainbow

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.495, Delphi Classics

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• The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Practice, Feelings, Doe

  Emily Bronte, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë (1851). “Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: In Two Volumes”, p.16

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• It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Oil, Water, Evil

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• Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mind, Way, Sin

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• Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.

  George Berkeley

  Lying, Men, Odds

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• A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Winter, Half, Mercy

  "Before Majesty" by Czesław Miłosz, 1978.

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• Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

  Francois Fenelon

  Imperfect, Conquer, Fear Of Death

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• True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

  Francois Fenelon

  Heart, Simple, Attractive

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• Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, People, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Strong, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Essays: First Series”, p.216

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• We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.

  Edwin J Delattre

  Character, Ignorance, Moral

  Edwin J. Delattre (2011). “Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing”, p.7, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

  Ralph Charell

  Love, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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• Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.

  Rene Thom

  Rich, Structure, Algebra

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• We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.

  Watchman Nee

  Strong, Weakness, May

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.19, CLC Publications

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• Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Party, Government

  Address delivered on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes in the British West Indies, Concord, Mass., 1 Aug. 1844

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• If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Office, Justice

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.249, Graphic Arts Books

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• Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Memories, Complaining, Judgment

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• A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Power, Stupidity, Mind

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• There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Strong, Real

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• Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Mind, One Day

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• We need a plague. It's gotta happen. And don't worry, it's only gonna kill the weak. Seriously. Put on a sweater, take some vitamins, you're gonna be fine! We gotta let mother nature do her
  thing, man. She keeps trying to help us out and we won't let her do it.

  Bill Burr

  Mother, Men, Sweaters

  "Bill Burr: Let It Go". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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• What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!

  Marquis de Sade

  God, Religious, Men

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• Ah me, how weak a thing
  The heart of woman is!

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Heart

  1599 Portia. Julius Caesar, act 2, sc.4, l.41-2.

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