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Weakness: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water: yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain'd by feverish lips, May give a thrill of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarian juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.— THOS. NOON TALFOURD — Sonnet III.

How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips! Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it, The brightest that beauty or revelry sips.— SAMUEL WOODWORTH — The Old Oaken

But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.— BURKE — Speech on the Conciliation of

America. Amiable weakness.— HENRY FIELDING — Tom Jones. Bk. X. Ch. VIII.

Amiable weakness of human nature.— GIBBON — Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. XIV.

And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.— GOLDSMITH — The Traveller. L. 271.

A mass enormous! which, in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise. S.— HOMER — The Iliad. Bk. XX. L. 387.

Pope's trans. Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!— LOWELL — The Biglow Papers. Second Series. No. 7.

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.— MILTON — Comus. L. 329.

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, there fore, With God or man will gain thee no remission— MILTON — Samson Agonistes. L. 831.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 157.

I know and love the good, yet ah! the worst pursue.— PETRARCH — To Laura in Life.

Canzone XXI. Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 249.

Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain- Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain.— TENNYSON — Locksley Hall. St. 75.

Alieno in loco Haud stabile regnum est. The throne of another is not stable for thee.— SENECA — Hercules Furens. 344.

On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagère. We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.— LA HARPE — Mélanie. I. 1.

Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Höhe nicht zu schwindeln. The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted heights.— GOETHE — Iphigenia auf Tauris. I. 3. 98.

Die Limonade ist matt wie deine Seeleversuche! This lemonade is weak like your soultry it! C..— SCHILLER — Cabale und Liebe. V. 7.