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“Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.”

Heart Sides Failing Weakness Weak

Book:Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts

Source: Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts

“There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.”

Purpose Failing Victory Weak Importance Enormous

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.”

Giving Believe Doe Pain Spirit Animal Failing Please Weak Faculty Vegetables Perfume Boast Fragrance Revive Offending Good Humor Gaiety

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.”

People May Found Failing Weak Bases Constitution Attachment Good Sense

Book:The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams

Source: The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams

“There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who 'fail' at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompetent, incapable even of getting their dying quite right.”

Successful Failing Dying Concepts Weak Suicide Killing Finals Awful Assumption Incapable Incompetent Puritan Unsuccessful

Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.”

Thinking World Trying Wells Children Hard Fall Compassion Teach Failing Hard Work Weak Raises Grateful Ill Life Experience Try Again Forbearance

Author:Dorianne Laux

“Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence with them.”

Men Littles Has Beens Light Christian Failing Resources Weak Difficulty Great Things Giants Weak Man

Author:Hudson Taylor

“To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.”

Knows Soul Joy Pleasure Failing Weak Finals Delight Quests Unspeakable Pointers

Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.”

Men Needs Sex Failing Weak Opposites Gentleman Reassurance Adulation

Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings