Something between a hindrance and a help.
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Michael. A Pastoral Poem, l. 189 (1800).William Wordsworth
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The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.
Martin Luther
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
John Morley
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
William Somerset Maugham
"Lou, what else can I say except that it was a sad day in the life of everybody who knew you when you [...] told me you were quitting as a ballplayer because you felt yourself a hindrance to the team. My God, man, you were never that."
Lou Gehrig
If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.
Max Stirner
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