Weakness Quotes

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A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. — James Russell Lowell
Tyranny is always weakness — James Russell Lowell
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole… — James Russell Lowell
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! — William Shakespeare
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness… — Eric Hoffer
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails. — Joseph Addison
To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not… — Oscar Wilde
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns. — Jean de La Fontaine
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? — May Sarton
Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ... to remember… — Henry Van Dyke
Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone,… — William Cowper
Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's… — Alexander Pope
Wickedness is weakness. — John Milton
If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or… — John Milton
The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. — Epictetus
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends… — Edmund Burke
Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal. — Edmund Burke
I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be… — Claude Monet
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness. — Norbert Wiener
From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try,… — George Crabbe

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