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Weakness Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
- In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous…
- The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
- The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
- Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She…
- 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…
- Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
More Weakness Quotes
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent… — Georges Bataille
- The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
- Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. — Joseph Addison
- God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. — Henry Ward Beecher
- It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the… — Joseph Addison
- I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness. — Annie Besant
- Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond… — William J. H. Boetcker
- Victory belongs to the most persevering. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it,… — Akhenaton