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«And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.»
«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.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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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.»
«I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
God
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«It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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God,
Greatness
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frailties, frailty, One The
«'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s»
«Frailty, thy name is woman!»
«Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For such as we are made of, such we be»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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alas, frailties, frailty, such as
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