A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward. — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm. — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“Frailty begot frailty. Nothing caused lightheadedness so surely as day after day of stifling confinement.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
“What about those yogis who can lie down on a bed of nails, then arise, streaming blood, then stop the flow of… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' But if that flow'r with base… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned is to be much more open about my frailties and about our failures, because when you… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“The nightmare they banished – a thing of darkness and misery, born of their fears, bloated on their hatreds. They did not… — Grant Smuts Copy Share Image
“And there we recognize that our frailty is not meant to cause us anxiety and sorrow. Rather, God means it to be… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
“The breath of wind that moved them was still chilly on this day in May; the flowers gently resisted, curling up with… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's… — William James Copy Share Image
“...[A]ll the elements which belong to the notion of happiness are altogether empirical, that is, they must be borrowed from experience, and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
“They are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot.” — Jennifer Hudock Copy Share Image
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is. — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
In a family it is normal to take charge of those who need help. Do not be afraid of frailty! — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself.” — Qiu Xiaolong Copy Share Image
![“And there we recognize that our frailty is not meant to cause us anxiety and sorrow. Rather, God means it to be a source of confidence, and even, as it was for Etty [the Dutch Jew previously mentioned that died in Auschwitz], a source of joy. For it is exactly that frailty--the strict limits to…” quote by Ellen F. Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/435/ellen-f-davis-25448_certainty-of-death_and-there-we-recognize-that-our-frailty_726927.jpg)
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