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Weakness
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“Weak people can be very stubborn.”
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“... the difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.”
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“Might, could, would — they are contemptible auxiliaries.”
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“... weakness is a great bully without knowing it ... ”
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“For to be powerless, to be a complete victim, may be another source of power.”
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“Never underestimate the power of helplessness!”
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“[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.”
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“Many think they have good hearts who have only weak nerves.”
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“He went on endlessly, overcome by the facile volubility of a weak nature.”
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“A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.”
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“The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.”
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“How strong sometimes is weakness!”
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“The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.”
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“I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.”
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“Not to discover weakness is / The Artifice of strength — ...”
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“... you allers was soft, and you allers will be. If 't wa'n't for me keeping you stiffened up, I b'lieve you'd leak out o' the house into the dooryard.”
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“... weakness is a terrible thing, worse even than evil ...”
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“If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.”
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“... a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.”
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“There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.”
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“... he had the terrific stubbornness of an essentially weak nature.”
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“The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.”
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“It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life ...”
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“People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.”
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“People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.”
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“... there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.”
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“... the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.”
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“Our greatest weaknesses are always the flip side of our greatest strengths.”
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“It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.”
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“Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.”
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“I've noticed that ineffectual people usually do go in for highfalutin threats.”
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“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”
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“Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.”