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The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. - Edmund Burke

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. – Edmund Burke

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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. – Edmund Burke

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned. – Eric Hoffer

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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. – James Russell Lowell

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Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble. – Johann von Goethe

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The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyones concern and like vampires they suck our lifes blood. – Bette Davis

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