“Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses.”
A Murder is Announced (1950)
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W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (1897), ch. XII: The Essentials in the Struggle, paragraph 93: "The Moral Movement" http://web.archive.org/20000818045142/members.tripod.com/~DuBois/supp.html
“Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths.”
Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945) writer, actress; Romanian princess
Haven (1951)
“People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.”
Aesop book The Dog in the Manger
The Dog in the Manger.
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) German Emperor and King of Prussia
On his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, as quoted in Harold Nicolson, Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bart., First Lord Carnock: A Study in the Old Diplomacy, London: Constable & Co., 1930, p. 214 http://books.google.com/books?id=CFUZAAAAIAAJ&dq=editions%3AISBN0571269028&q=treacherous <br class="br">1900s
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Strength is Life, Weakness is death.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
“You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.”
Wallace Stegner book Angle of Repose
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“Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified