Quotes with feeble-mindedness

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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Nelson Mandela A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
    De lange weg naar vrijheid
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Jeremy Collier Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill living.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Samuel Johnson Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Marquis de Sade Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (2011) 97
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Christopher Hampton I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Alice James It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Edmund Burke Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Richard Rorty Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Ralph Nader Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
    Ralph Nader
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Edmund Burke Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Aldous Huxley Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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