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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.
An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.
To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children?s hands.
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.
Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.
A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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.
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?
Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.
I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.
Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan
I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
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.
Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.
Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless,
but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.
Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
