"It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God."
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"God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith."
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"Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness."
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"My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths."
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"The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind."
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"Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle."
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"I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses."
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"Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths."
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"My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function."
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"To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat."
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"The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision."
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"You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power."
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"Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible."
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"As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt."
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"...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain."
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"It's not our weaknesses that frighten us. It's our strengths."
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"Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design."
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"We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive."
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"Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses."
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"There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good."
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