Infirmity Quotes
104 Infirmity quotes by 91 unique authors
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your…
— Ellen G. White
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
— C.S. Lewis
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Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still…
— C.S. Lewis
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even…
— Novalis
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The gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks…
— John Steinbeck
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It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
— Alexandre Dumas
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Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient…
— Charles Dickens
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But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them…
— Leif Enger
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The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with…
— Victor Hugo
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
— Seneca the Elder
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Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.
— John of Kronstadt
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Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil,…
— Marion LeRoy Burton
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
— Edmund Burke
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Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
— William Shakespeare
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our…
— Seneca the Younger
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There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be…
— Francois Fenelon
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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an…
— Dale Turner
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That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones
— John Ruskin
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our…
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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