"Over the years, I've learned that a confident person doesn't concentrate or focus on their weaknesses - they maximize their strengths."
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"Broken china lasts longer than unbroken."
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"The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things."
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"How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?"
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"No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority [of Christians] are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances."
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"In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man."
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"For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was."
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness."
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"Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness."
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"The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength."
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"What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems"
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"Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses."
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"Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned."
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"Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield."
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"I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried."
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