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  • When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest them with a power to do to others what they do to us; a vain hope, as the lovers of others are rarely of much interest to us. But we listen in patience, as friends must, and as Isabel now did, refraining from comment, other than to encourage the release of the story and the attendant confession of human frailty and hope.

    "Friends, Lovers, Chocolate". Book by Alexander McCall Smith, 2005.
  • 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.

    Love   Real   Heart  
  • Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

    Real   Knowing   People  
  • We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

    People   Frailty   Knows  
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

    Humility   Men   Fishing  
    Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr
  • 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.

    Philosophy   Fall   Use  
  • Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

    Nature   Heaven   Inspire  
    Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster
  • The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

  • The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.

  • And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

    Mind   And Love   Frailty  
    'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 2, sc. 2.
  • Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.

  • The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

    Mind   Weakness   Body  
    Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.226, Lulu.com
  • Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly

    Dad   Military   Men  
  • It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them a little too much about the tragic frailties of human governments, but it has also driven home to them that they must control firmly political and economic power, which, handed over to any government in their land, could be easily used to oppress them.

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

  • A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.

    John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.87, Hackett Publishing
  • Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

    Wisdom   Fall   Vanity  
  • False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

    "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.
  • A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

  • It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.

    Children   Makeup   Blood  
    Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

    Humorous   Men   Years  
    Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”
  • Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

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

    Grace   Needs   Conscious  
    George Lewis Prentiss, Elizabeth Prentiss (1987). “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss”
  • Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be.

    Blame   Made   Frailty  
    "The Plays (poems) of Shakespeare". Ed. by H. Staunton, the illustr. by J. Gilbert engr. by the brothers Dalziel,
  • What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

    Voltaire, André Maurois (1939). “The Living Thoughts of Voltaire”
  • The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

    Heart   Cities   Church  
  • ...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

  • Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of "A man's a man for 'a that," than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.

    Men   Scotch   Drunk  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”
  • In a family it is normal to take charge of those who need help. Do not be afraid of frailty!

    Needs   Normal   Helping  
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