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Every weakly compact set in a normed vector space is norm bounded, even if the space is incomplete. Its canonical embedding into the bidual is pointwise bounded on the continuous dual space; the Uniform boundedness principle on that Banach dual gives the norm bound.

Every weakly convergent sequence in a normed vector space is a bounded sequence. Apply the Uniform boundedness principle on the Banach space $X^{\ast }$ to the evaluation maps $J{x}_n:f\mapsto f(x_n)$. They are pointwise bounded, while the canonical embedding into the bidual gives $\Vert J{x}_n\Vert =\Vert x_n\Vert$.