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But borrowing strength builds weakness.

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

Jane Austen

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In a fight, your doubt is a target of enemy's attack.

Toba Beta

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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

Fernando Pessoa

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I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.

Michel de Montaigne

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There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

Charlie Fletcher

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A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.

Savitri Devi

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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

Otto von Bismarck

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I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

Lisa Kleypas

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A lion may die of an ass's kick.