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Weakness Quotes by George Eliot
- There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing…
- It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is…
- There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
- The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the…
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