Weakness is wretchedness! To be strong
Is to be happy!
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend (1851). copy citation

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Author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source The Golden Legend
Topic weakness wretchedness
Date 1851
Language English
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“For evermore before mine eyes This ghastly phantom flits and flies, And as a madman through a crowd, With frantic gestures and wild cries, It hurries onward, and aloud Repeats its awful prophecies! Weakness is wretchedness! To be strong Is to be happy! I am weak, And cannot find the good I seek, Because I feel and fear the wrong! Lucifer. Be not alarmed! The Church is kind-- And in her mercy and her meekness She meets half-way her children's weakness,” source