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“...[A]ll the elements which belong to the notion of happiness are altogether empirical, that is, they must be borrowed from experience, and nevertheless the idea of happiness requires an absolute w...”
“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.”
“Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?”
“They are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot.”
“Frailty, thy name is human!”
“The nightmare they banished a thing of darkness and misery, born of their fears, bloated on their hatreds. They did not could not understand it's true essence: the mark of a divinity, broken and...”
“If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman”
“You are human and fallible.”
“How frail the human heart must bea mirrored pool of thought.”
“The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.”
“Frailty thy name is woman!”
“An amiable weakness.”
“The nightmare they banished – a thing of darkness and misery, born of their fears, bloated on their hatreds. They did not – could not – understand it's true essence: the mark of a divinity, broken ...”
“How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.”