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“My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.”

Death Spirit Dies Sleep Sky Weak Sick Hardship Mortality Eagles Unwilling Steep Pinnacle Godlike

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“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

“Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.”

Spirit Weak Vegetables Perfume Fragrance Revive Offending Good Humor

Author:Samuel Johnson

“A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.”

Should Country Spirit Poor Powerful Weak Accounts Generous Prosperous Generous Spirit

Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without the knowledge of their indignant general. This disgraceful act of cruelty which might be imputed to the fury of the troops, was followed by the deliberate murder of Withicab, the son of Vadomair; a German prince, of a weak and sickly constitution, but of a daring and formidable spirit.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.”

Source: The last temptation of Christ

“And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.”

Heart Spirit Lost Voice Sea Weak Smell Golden Rebel Rejoice Bent Lilac Lost Heart

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes froma weak hand and is imperfectly formed, it inspires the ethical spirit to constantly renewed creation.”

Ifs Inspirational Mind Said Hands Spirit Clear Creation Inspire Pure Weak Vain Ethical Clear Minds

Author:Stefan Zweig