"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse."
― Oliver Goldsmith
Topic(s):
Strength
More From Oliver Goldsmith
- "Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
- "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
- "When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"
More In Strength
- "It requires more strength to be gentle, so it’s the everyday encounters of life that I think we’ve prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people."― Bob Keeshan
- "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."― Vince Lombardi
- "We’ve got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization."― Peter Mandelson