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There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a...

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I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I ...

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Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would f...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible tem...

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She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image ...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that;...

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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual ...

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Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of yourchildren, and you assig...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harm...

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How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the my...

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Women destroy me. I allow them to.

A lion may die of an ass's kick.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign...

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Samuel JohnsonA Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

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Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...

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A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence aga...

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Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposa...

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For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly alway...

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For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he ...

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Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness.

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity cou...

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I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the ...

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Umberto EcoPostscript to the Name of the Rose

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...

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We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the fir...

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Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many year...

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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

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... People were never quite what you thought they were.

The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach ...

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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key wa...

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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use ...

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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a...

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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-call...

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The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each ...

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Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an a...

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Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthi...

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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakne...

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Weakness or strength: there you are, strength. You do not know where you are going, nor why you are ...

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Arthur RimbaudA Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and...

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To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the p...

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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the s...

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A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.

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Barbara EhrenreichNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we...

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The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'...

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Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable,...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it eno...

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C. S. LewisLetters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable fig...

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Think not that humility is weakness it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and c...

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What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w...

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...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and pass...

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That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It...

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Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, lik...

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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of reli...

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Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is no...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; dou...

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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

If a god had made the world, might world always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so m...

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Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness ...

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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

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Eric HofferThe Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

Millions are impressed by the victories of power and take it for the sign of strength. To be sure, p...

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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of n...

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When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power ...

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom ...

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The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went ...

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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attai...

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She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous...

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The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on ma...

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Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to...

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It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You wil...

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Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

O, lack and doubt and fear can only comeBecause of plenty, confidence, and love!They are the shadow-...

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George MacDonaldA Hidden Life and Other Poems

To be unable to bear disapproval was an unworthy weakness. But in her case it came nowise of the pri...

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...To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;...

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As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union,...

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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of...

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This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in ...

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