Puny Quotes

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hesitation, Following, Fickle

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart

Work, Great, Inward

A puny body weakens the soul.
Paul Cezanne

Soul, Body, Weakens

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
Imelda Marcos

Life, Dreams, Reality

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
Imelda Marcos

Dreams, Live, Small

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
John Chrysostom

Work, Great, Soul

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
G. Stanley Hall

Age, Hard, Keep

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
Alexander Herzen

Life, Science, Daily

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