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Oscar Wilde Writer
Weakness

"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 - there is no weakness in that."

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James Allen Author, Philosopher
Weakness

"When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness."

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Franz Kafka Writer
Weakness

"Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction."

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James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist
Weakness

"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 of a single weakness."

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
Weakness

"That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man."

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