"And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind." — Thomas Shadwell

More Frailty Quotes

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• The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler
• The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. — Miguel de Cervantes
• False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and… — Jean de la Bruyere
• It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. — Seneca the Younger
• Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,… — Bernard de Mandeville
• Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection. — Albert Pike
• Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. — Glen Duncan
• 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those… — David Hume
• Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self'… — Unknown Author
• Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual… — Joseph Addison

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