Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.
The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer.
A puny body weakens the soul.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things in short whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you however innocent it may be in itself.
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if energy be not expended the power to generate it is lost. This law shows itself in a thousand ways in the life of man. The arm which is not used becomes palsied. The wealth which comes by chance weakens and destroys. The good which is unused turns to evil. The charity which asks no effort cannot relieve the misery she creates.
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
After a few months' acquaintance with European coffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all . . .
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