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• Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

  William Congreve

  Ambition, Fire, Self

  1700 The Way of the World, act 3, sc.12.

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• You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.

  Khalil Gibran

  Crush, Powerful, Flower

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• Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  People, Guy, Want

  "Sam Rises to the Occasion as Lazarus". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

  William Hurt

  Thinking, Fragility, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

  Thomas Nashe

  Idiot, Fame, Immortal

  1592 Strange News of the Intercepting Certain Letters.

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• Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.

  William Congreve

  Love, Ambition, Mind

  1700 The Way of the World, act 3, sc.12.

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• Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves.

  Frank Warren

  Thinking, Talking, Secret

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• I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Essence, Over You

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• A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy as a whole fall into ill-repute because of those among its devotees who have stumbled into wells, or who aimlessly pass their lives in whetting their faculties and then neglecting to use them.

  John Grier Hibben

  Philosophy, Fall, Use

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• Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

  Christopher Morley

  Blessed, Rectitude, Tempted

  Christopher Morley (1933). “Christopher Morley's omnibus: an excursion among the books of Christopher Morley”

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• In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to heal, and that the divine activity should issue forth even from the hem of His garment. For God is not perceptible by the senses, to be enclosed within a body. The assumption of a body did not limit the nature of His power; but for our redemption His power took upon it the frailty of our body.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Christian, Dwelling, Issues

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• We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.

  Eric Cantona

  Needs, Treasure, Common

  "Eric Cantona tells us about his new movie Looking For Eric and his most memorable football moments". www.mirror.co.uk. June 12, 2009.

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• The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Grace, Needs, Conscious

  George Lewis Prentiss, Elizabeth Prentiss (1987). “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss”

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• Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

  Donald Fehr

  People, Perfection, Faults

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• I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly much. Of intentions many good ones; but many more left undone. On this alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this too I saw . . . Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same.You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Pride, Men, Vanity

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.143, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

  Iris Murdoch

  Holiday, World, Retiring

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.77, Penguin

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• The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Views

  'Four Dissertations' (1757) 'The Natural History of Religion' sect. 15

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• Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

  Anna Godbersen

  Sleep, Might, Rooms

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• God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

  Ava Gardner

  Forgiving, Able, God Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.

  William Chillingworth

  Men, Errors, Atheism

  William Chillingworth (1820). “The works of William Chillingworth, 1: in three volumes”, p.111

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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 Of the frailties and shortcomings of the person.

  Andras Angyal

  Love, Real, Heart

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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 that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

  Joseph Addison

  Anniversary, Two, Perfection

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.583

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• The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Disease, End Of Life, Decrepit

  "The ideas interview: Aubrey de Grey". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2006.

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• One of the things I've learned is to be much more open about my frailties and about our failures, because when you show your kids how you can resolve conflict in your life in real time, you're giving them confidence that when they have conflicts, they can push through them.

  Bruce Feiler

  Real, Kids, Giving

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

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• Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

  John Steinbeck

  Benefits, Speech, Bread

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.63, Penguin

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