#feeble

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. ↗

— Black Elk

#earth #feeble #grandfather #great #great spirit

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

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#beauty #because #feeble #force #right

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. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#difficulty #disturb #feeble #gales #great

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting. ↗

— William Cowper

#feeble #sting #straw #stuck #tail

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#decadence #feeble #i #rather #sophistication

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. ↗

— Richard Holloway

#after #children #disciplines #each #eagerly

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. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#become #differences #disappear #feeble #give

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. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#brave #brave men #cannot #defense #even

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#issued #may #nature #only #our

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. ↗

— Henry Miller

#any #bad #city #feeble #feeling