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Lacking courage and spirit




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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. - William Blake

The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is comparable to observing a match flame at the distance of Pluto. The WISE satellite, a hi-tech, space-based infrared telescope especially suited for such work, has found only a few. - Seth Shostak

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head. - Marilyn vos Savant

Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it. - Carmen Miranda

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. - William Wordsworth

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

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint. - George Grey

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. - Carl von Clausewitz

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