“ The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is. ”
- Allan Bloom- Copy
“ Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
“ One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
“ It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. ”
- Anne Bronte- Copy
“ Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. ”
- Hosea Ballou- Copy
“ Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. ”
- A.J. Cronin- Copy
“ I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent. ”
- James G. Watt- Copy
“ A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong one. Nay, the fleeter and better the racer is, who hath once missed his way, the farther he leaveth it behind. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
“ I think it undermines the fragile coalition that we have with our allies. ”
- Tom Daschle- Copy
“ In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. ”
- Daniel Boone- Copy
“ I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days. ”
- Roger Bannister- Copy
“ I'm not the one who was elected. Although she disagreed with her husband on a lot of issues, she emphasized, I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view. ”
- Laura Bush- Copy
“ Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate. ”
- William George Jordan- Copy
“ It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
“ Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy. ”
- Tyron Edwards- Copy
“ A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
“ Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
“ Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
“ Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me. ”
- Charles F. Kettering- Copy
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