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• A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Discipline, Vigor

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.865

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• Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Strong, Fall

  "A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Humility, Quality, Spirit

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• The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Strong, Conflict, Difficulty

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• Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Teaching, Men, Weak Man

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

  Mary McGrory

  Leadership, Women, People

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• Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

  Will Durant

  Dream, War, Civilization

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own resources were so weak you had to resort to magic and miracle cures for healing. To acquire faith was to mobilize the powers of an overly active imagination.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Spiritual, Women, Healing

  Vanessa L. Ochs (1992). “Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred”, Harvest Books

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• Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Roots, Easy

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• With every prayer and every thought of love, we release
  the light that will cast out darkness. One light alone seems
  small and weak, but no one's light is ever alone, for all our
  lights are part of God.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Light, Darkness

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• There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

  Philip Sidney

  Strong, Glasses, Opinion

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.2

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• Because the free market system is so weak politically, the forms of capitalism that are experienced in many countries are very far from the ideal. They are a corrupted version, in which powerful interests prevent competition from playing its natural, healthy role.

  Raghuram Rajan

  Country, Powerful, Healthy

  Raghuram Rajan (2013). “Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism”, p.26, HarperCollins Publishers India

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• Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Lying, Heart, Mean

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• It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Beautiful, Ignorant, Immature

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (2007). “Vegetarianism and Occultism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. However, a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either nonexistent or weak.

  George Ayittey

  Evil, Genius, Able

  George B.N. Ayittey (2011). “Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World”, p.8, St. Martin's Press

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• And sometimes I remember days of old
  When fellowship seemed not so far to seek,
  And all the world and I seemed much less cold,
  And at the rainbow's foot lay surely gold,
  And hope felt strong, and life itself not weak.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Feet, Rainbow

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.495, Delphi Classics

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• The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Practice, Feelings, Doe

  Emily Bronte, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë (1851). “Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: In Two Volumes”, p.16

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• Often try what weight you can support,
  And what your shoulders are too weak to bear.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Exercise, Support, Trying

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• The smile that illumines the features of beauty,
  When kindled by virtue, alluring appears;
  But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow,
  To vie with the softness of beauty in tears.
  The smiles that are sweetest are often deceiving;
  Too often a mask which the cold-hearted wears;
  But a tear is the holiest offspring of feeling,
  And monarchs are weak before beauty in tears.

  Henry George Bohn

  Feelings, Magic, Cold Hearted

  Henry George Bohn (1867). “A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets”, p.623

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• It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Oil, Water, Evil

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• Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mind, Way, Sin

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• ... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.

  Catharine Beecher

  School, Sacrifice, Self

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• Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.

  George Berkeley

  Lying, Men, Odds

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• A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Winter, Half, Mercy

  "Before Majesty" by Czesław Miłosz, 1978.

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• In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

  I. L. Peretz

  World, This World, Dangerous

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