Faint Quotes
397 quotes by 329 authors
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
— William Blake
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
— Erma Bombeck
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.
— George Clooney
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It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray.
— Charles Wesley
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.
— Sun Tzu
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Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.
— Adelaide Crapsey
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it…
— William Wilberforce
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a…
— Pablo Neruda
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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love -…
— Erma Bombeck
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Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.
— Anthony Hopkins
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Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour…
— John Burroughs
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Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like…
— Max Lerner
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Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts…
— John Barth
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