If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?
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If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?
All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore,
With God or man will gain thee no remission.

Heaven forming each on other to depend,
A master, or a servant, or a friend,
Bids each read more

Heaven forming each on other to depend,
A master, or a servant, or a friend,
Bids each on other for assistance call,
Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.

We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.

Fine by defect, and delicately weak.

Fine by defect, and delicately weak.

And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd,
Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd,
Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, read more

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.

Amiable weakness of human nature.

Amiable weakness of human nature.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.