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• All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Frailty, Thyself

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• Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Men, Differences, World

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.258, The Overlook Press

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• Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Midnight, Veils, Strange

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.270, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• Flowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Flower, Clouds

  "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Book by Thomas de Quincey, 1821.

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• People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

  TobyMac

  Honesty, People, Faces

  "Mac World" by Deborah Evans Prince, Billboard, January 09, 2010.

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• Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Flower, Clouds

  Thomas De Quincey (1856). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater, and Selected Essays”

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• Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Adversity, Men, Virtue

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1543, Moody Publishers

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• It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

  Seneca the Younger

  God, Greatness, Men

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• In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Men, Profound

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.70, Prestwick House Inc

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• Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

  Aeschylus

  Dream, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, p.5, Everyman's Library

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• I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

  John Quincy Adams

  Learning, Wind, Broken

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• We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men

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• Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

  Virginia Woolf

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.69, Virginia Woolf

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• The air is like a butterfly
  With frail blue wings.
  The happy earth looks at the sky
  And sings.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Happiness, Spring, Butterfly

  Joyce Kilmer (1946). “Joyce Kilmer”

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• Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

  Alan Cohen

  Ego, Way, Formidable

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• Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Hard

  "Song: 'When You Believe'". 1998.

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• Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

  Ben Jonson

  Memories, Mind, Delicate

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3182, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty is a frail good.

  Ovid

  Beauty

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• For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

  John Milton

  Ease, Littles

  1637 Lycidas, l.152-3.

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• There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

  Mark Twain

  People, Earth, Destruction

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.4169, GENERAL PRESS

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• But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Believe, Humanity, Religion

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• ... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.

  Sara Gruen

  Children, Glasses, Hair

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• It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

  John Gardner

  Fall, Order, Long

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.110, Vintage

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