Infirmity Quotes
104 quotes by 91 authors
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Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
— James M. Barrie
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God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of…
— Thomas Browne
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Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
— Alexander the Great
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
— Charles Lamb
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Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
— John Milton
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Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as…
— Martin Luther
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny,…
— Orison Swett Marden
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God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from…
— William Gurnall
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There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a…
— Charles Spurgeon
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As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness with watchfulness will…
— Richard Sibbes
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I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty.…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
— Tacitus
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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes…
— Joseph Story
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Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant…
— Baird T. Spalding
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