Faint Quotes - page 9

Here life is, moves; faintly. A wrist. The faint throb of blood, precise, miraculous . . . (E. E. Cummings)
Encouraging the weak and the faint; giving strength and courage to those who have faltered. View quote
Edgar Cayce
Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not. View quote
George Whitefield
Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more. View quote
William Cowper
And something started in my soul, fever or forgotten wings, and I made my own way, deciphering that fire, and I wrote the first faint line, faint, without substance, pure nonsense, pure wisdom of someone who knows nothing, and I suddenly saw the heavens unfastened and open. View quote
Pablo Neruda
Leadership is not for the faint of heart. View quote
Bill Hybels
The world is full of fools and faint hearts and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
All growth and unfoldment from atom to sun is based upon this law of soul urge. What you earnestly desire and persistently affirm will be yours, if you "faint not." View quote
Charles Fillmore
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make. View quote
Tad Williams
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing. (Florence Nightingale)
At present they [philosophers] seem to be in a very lamentable condition, and such as the poets have given us but a faint notion of in their descriptions of the punishment of Sisyphus and Tantalus. View quote
David Hume
Dissimulations is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are the great dissemblers. View quote
Francis Bacon
What people ought to be asking me is "Where do you get those tiny, little infinitesimally faint sparks that you then somehow manage to blow up into ideas?" Of course, my answer would be, "I have no inkling whatsoever." View quote
Caitlín R. Kiernan
I come to Thee, O Christ. Faint and perishing, defenceless and needy, with many a sin and many a fear, to Thee I turn, for Thou hast died for me, and for me Thou dost live. Be Thou my shelter and strong tower. Give me to drink of living water. Let me rest in Thee while in this weary land; and let Thy sweet love, my Brother and my Lord, be mine all on earth and the heaven of my heaven. View quote
Alexander Maclaren
A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
She felt... less. She felt tamped down. Dim. More faint. Feint. Feigned. Fain. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
Behold, we live through all things,-famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery, All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst On soul and body,-but we can not die, Though we be sick and tired and faint and worn,- Lo, all things can be borne! View quote
Elizabeth Chase Allen
The hollow sea-shell, which for years hath stood On dusty shelves, when held against the ear Proclaims its stormy parent, and we hear The faint, far murmur of the breaking flood. We hear the sea. The Sea? It is the blood In our own veins, impetuous and near. View quote
Eugene Lee-Hamilton
Faint heart never won fair lady. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. (Charles Dickens)
It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down. View quote
Charles Dickens
The path which leads to the mount bf ascension does not lie among flowers; and he who travels it must climb the cold hillside, he must have his feet cut by the pointed rocks, he must faint in the dark valley, he must not seldom have his rest at midnight on the desert sand. View quote
Henry Giles
He spoke, and deep a lengthened sigh he drew, A doleful sound, and vanished from the view: The frightened billows gave a rolling swell, And, distant far, prolonged the dismal yell; Faint and more faint the howling echoes die, And the black cloud dispersing leaves the sky. View quote
Luís de Camões
Long, unwearied intercourse, free and wise Contemplation, attention to faint tokens and indications; an inward poet-life, practised senses, a simple and devout spirit: these are the essential requisites of a true Friend of Nature; without these no one can attain his wish. View quote
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