#feeble

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#feeble #first #growth #living #mind

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#feeble #history #how #paper #shows

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#date #feeble #invoked #out #rarely

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. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#civilisation #ever #feeble #fire #first

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#man #most #nature #reed #thing

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beauty #because #feeble #force #right

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. ↗

— John Joly

#built #collective #feeble #many #miles

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? ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#away #blood #bombs #calls #democracy

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#enough #feeble #help #support #them

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. ↗

— Joseph Story

#executive #feeble #government #implies