Frailties Quotes
45 quotes by 43 authors
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true…
— David Hume
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Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst…
— Andras Angyal
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Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in…
— Joseph Addison
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It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
— Tom Hiddleston
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The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.
— Yuri Kochiyama
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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
— Anne Stevenson
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We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
— Stanley Kunitz
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Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
— Edward Kennedy
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Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.
— Cyrus the Great
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Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is…
— William James
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I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.
— Hugh Mackay
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Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your…
— Heather King
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My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do…
— Khalil Gibran
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Remember: even the smallest drop of God's strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves…
— Lysa TerKeurst
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No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of…
— Thomas Gray
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We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.
— Eric Cantona
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Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about…
— Blanche Lincoln
Who Wrote These Frailties Quotes
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