#feeble

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. ↗

— Joseph Story

#executive #feeble #government #implies

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity. ↗

— John Strachan

#back #brought #christianity #compare #contemplate

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#mastery #me #my own #own #sole

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. ↗

— Black Elk

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#beauty #because #feeble #force #right

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#difficulty #disturb #feeble #gales #great

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting. ↗

— William Cowper

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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

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