"Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power."
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"The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness."
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"There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness."
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"Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction."
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"Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy."
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"But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in."
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"To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe."
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"When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength."
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"Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest."
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"The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental."
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"Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few?"
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"But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh."
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"I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly."
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"Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs."
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"Whatever your weakness, there’s a hellion to exploit it."
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"No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity."
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"I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them."
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"A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness."
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"I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me."
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"For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at."
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