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All flesh doth frailty breed!
Great for good, or great for evil.
Man with frailty is allied by birth.
And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.
The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.
Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be.
Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.
The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.
Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!
You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.
Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
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.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that is possible despite the frailty of that nature.
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 our own human frailties.
Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.
'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.
I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.
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.
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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.
Rick Rubin and my father had a great friendship and it's because of it that the work my dad did at the end of his life was created - that he felt creativity and invigorated again, even though he was being consumed by frailty.
We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.
If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.
I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge.
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.
I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.