"There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated."
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"There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death"
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"The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own."
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"It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust."
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"Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses."
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"... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it."
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"I do not love thee less for what is done, And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth My love will have a sense of pity in it, Making it less a worship than before."
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"What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness."
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"In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength."
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"In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness."
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"The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible."
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"I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused."
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"Books are my weakness."
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"Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak."
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"I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman."
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"A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero."
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"We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength."
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"Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity."
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"It is commonly a weak man who marries for love."
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