Quotes with frail

  • The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

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  • Thomas à Kempis Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Victor Hugo Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Frances Rodman Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
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  • Sylvia Plath How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought...
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • William Shakespeare I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bruce Campbell People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • Max Lerner The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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