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“The Federal Government is rendered weak to do wrong, and powerful to do right: for, as soon as it begins to go wrong, it naturally begins to be divided against itself, and the three great wheels of its machinery exhaust their momentum, or wear each other out, in their friction against each other; while, as soon as it begins to go right, all the parts work harmoniously, and exhaust their full strength on the object of their action.”

Government Action Three Powerful Objects Weak Wheels Divided Federal Government Machinery Momentum Friction

Author:William Batchelder Greene

“The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.”

Self Form Desire Attention Objects Weak Vanity Dread

Book:Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge

Source: Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge

“Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.”

Might Born Compassion Awareness Objects Weakness Weak Oneself Pity Inferiors

Book:A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice

Source: A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice

“I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity.”

World Suffering Space Objects This World Thousand Weak Eternity Difficulty Accustomed

Author:Frances Xavier Cabrini

“Those who are wise ambassadors of the word have no other object in view than to free as far as they can their hearers from weak opinions, and to endue them with intelligence.”

Views Opinion Wise Objects Weak Ambassadors

Author:Origen