Faint praise is disparagement. [ Proverb ]

O wild and wondrous midnight.
There is a might in thee
To make the charmed body
Almost like spirit be,
And give it some faint glimpses
Of immortality! [ Lowell ]

Faint heart never won fair lady. [ Proverb ]

And let us mind, faint heart never wan
A lady fair. [ Burns ]

It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity. [ Massinger ]

Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady never could win. [ Spenser ]

O love, they die, in yon rich sky.
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul.
And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. [ Tennyson ]

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes. [ Lowell ]

When you see a woman paint, your heart needna faint. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Whenever he speaks, Heaven, how the listening throng
Dwell on the melting music of his tongue!
His arguments are emblems of his mien,
Mild but not faint, and forcing, though serene:
And when the power of eloquence he'd try,
Here lightning strikes you, there soft breezes sigh. [ Garth ]

Behold, we live through all things, - famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery.
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, - but we cannot die.
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn, -
Lo, all things can be borne! [ Elizabeth Akers Allen ]

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. [ Proverbs ]

Music! - O, how faint, how weak, language fades before thy spell! [ Moore ]

Like the faint streaks of light broke loose from darkness, and dawning into blushes. [ Dryden ]

A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew. [ Whittier ]

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. [ Barrow ]

Dissimulation is but faint policy, for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth and to do it. [ Bacon ]

There comes a time when the souls of human beings, women more even than men, begin to faint for the atmosphere of the affections they are made to breathe. [ Holmes ]