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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
The European Union is becoming more economically feeble every year.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
I have a mother back there in Illinois who is old and feeble. I haven't seen her this many a year and haven't been a good son to her, yet I love her better than anything in this life.
Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?
Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.
I will never have the willpower to completely swear off pizza or a good summer sale, but I'm working on realizing the difference between the occasional craving and the compulsion to mindlessly consume as a feeble means of self-medication.
We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.
When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.
Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.
Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.
Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.
A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in the English landscape is the full, placid stream the season through; no desiccated watercourses will you see there, nor any feeble, decrepit brooks, hardly able to get over the ground.
