But a fainthearted man is not evil, as the Philosopher says (Ethic.
Therefore the fainthearted are virtuous: and consequently pusillanimity is not a sin.
The Philosopher calls those evil who injure their neighbor: and accordingly the fainthearted is said not to be evil, because he injures no one, save accidentally, by omitting to do what might be profitable to others.
Hence it is that the servant who buried in the earth the money he had received from his master, and did not trade with it through fainthearted fear, was punished by his master (Matt.
But pusillanimity does not proceed from pride, since the proud man sets himself above what he is, while the fainthearted man withdraws from the things he is worthy of.
His treason was not that of a fainthearted man desirous to keep a retreat open for himself in every event, but that of a man of dauntless courage, profound policy and measureless ambition.
I know that some fainthearted people will say, ‘Oh, no!
Surely some amongst us are too fainthearted about the truth.
If we are so fainthearted now what should we have been before the Reformation?
Aristomachus, "wert thou ten times more fainthearted than thou art, and were our enemies double their number, I at least, will fight them!
Spartan, who art not wont to use words heedlessly, call no man fainthearted again before thou knowest him.
Be not fainthearted then; and invite not the infidels to peace when ye have the upper hand: for God is with you, and will not defraud you of the recompense of your works.
Sir 4:9 Deliver him that suffereth wrong from the hand of the oppressor; and be not fainthearted when thou sittest in judgment.
Sir 7:10 Be not fainthearted when thou makest thy prayer, and neglect not to give alms.
But if persecution or the shedding of some of our blood must needs come before our success, who is so fainthearted and womanish as to draw back for such a cause?
This gladdened our hearts and made us eager for the journey: and when on the morrow we went up from Capernaum, journeying towards Samaria, there was not one in our band that was fainthearted nor desirous to return.
To think that I should grow fainthearted this day of all days, when for the first time he seemed to be touched by a good man's words.
But it is only a little since--since I came to trust Him, and whiles I doubt whether I do trust Him right, so fearful and fainthearted am I.
They were glad, and they were sorry, and the mother was a little fainthearted for them both at the thought of the long days, that lay before them.
