On the other hand, there was a part of my motherher brave cheerfulness, her trust in God, her heroic struggle to keep the home togetherwhich went soaring on beyond my understanding, leaving me a coward weakling, grovelling in the dust.

He may say to himself, "Some people have the power of self-mastery, and it is better to assume that all have, because it tends to produce a greater effort than if one merely tries to console a moral weakling for his deficiencies."

My name is TroubleI'm a busy bloke I am the test of Courageand of Class I bind the coward to a bitter yoke, I drive the craven from the crowning pass; Weaklings I crush before they come to fame; But as the red star guides across the night, I train the stalwart for a better game; I drive the brave into a harder fight.

Theoretically the master might be expected perhaps to expend the minimum possible to keep his slaves in strength, to discard the weaklings and the aged, to drive his gang early and late, to scourge the laggards hourly, to secure the whole with fetters by day and with bolts by night, and to keep them in perpetual terror of his wrath.

There is a fine true story of a famous head-master, who disliked a weakling, putting on a stupid, shy, and ungainly boy to construe, and making deliberate fun of him.

It by no means follows that if by education we could improve all these moral and industrial weaklings they could obtain steady employment without displacing others.

In a poor cottage inned, a virgin maid A weakling did him bear, who all upbears; There is he poorly swaddled, in manger laid, To whom too narrow swaddlings are our spheres: Run, shepherds, run, and solemnize his birth.

To the practical men of affairs, the shopkeepers and traders, the land-owners and ship-owners, the soldiers and sailors, the statesmen and politicians, the people who specialized in maneuvering human beings and materials, they were, for this futile devotion to abstract knowledge, marked ridiculous and absurd weaklings, mollycoddles, babies, not to be trusted with the demands and dangers of public life.

I will not marry a weakling.

you thought, some of you, that you might possibly be poetry, you miserable weaklings and beguilers!

When Napoleon conquered a country, often he pushed the weakling king off the throne, and replaced him with a member of his own familyat times a worse weakling.

if God sends the poor weakling to purgatory for leaving the right path, where ought some of you to go who strew it with thorns and briers!

But as long as the Bible is supposed to be an equally divine Emanation with the Testament, so long it will stagger weaklings to have them set in opposition.

there in some places, that men of the country and cattle are killed with it; and Adricomius of Arabia Felix, by reason of myrrh, frankincense, and hot spices there growing, the air is so obnoxious to their brains, that the very inhabitants at some times cannot abide it, much less weaklings and strangers.

Thus the nation, more and more, with ever-increasing rapidity, declined in bodily, and of course spiritual, quality, until the end was reached, and Nature swallowed up the weaklings whole; and thus war, which to the modern state is at worst the blockhead and indecent affaires d'honneur of persons in officeand which, surely, before you and I die will cease altogetherwas to the ancient a genuine and remorselessly fatal scourge.