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''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
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As man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
On War (1832) -
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
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Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
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Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination
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Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
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Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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