Feeble Quotes
267 quotes by 218 authors
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Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
— Mason Cooley
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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a…
— Lewis Mumford
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God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his…
— Richard Holloway
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It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed…
— Alice James
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My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes…
— Elizabeth I
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in,…
— Octavia Butler
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Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and…
— Albert Pike
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It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems…
— Eric Ludy
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The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can…
— Hudson Taylor
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Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
— P T Barnum
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I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on…
— Paul Nash
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Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble,…
— Adam Lindsay Gordon
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Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.
— Isabel Paterson
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Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be…
— Jack Handey
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A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble…
— Morris Sheppard
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Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of…
— George Washington
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable…
— William Cowper
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Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a…
— John Aylmer
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Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.
— Charlie Chaplin
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