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Letter "F" » fragile
«Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.»
«The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars»
Author: Johnny Cash
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
beast, caged, fragile, frail, frailest, The Beast
«Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.»
«Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.»
«Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.»
«Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
birds, caged, delicate, flying bird, fragile, heights, hitherto, savage, soulful, stranger, strayed, straying, strays, sweeter, treated
«Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
accustomed, adorns, boisterous, delicacy, fragile, inexpressible, phenomena, suggestive, suggestive of
«The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.»
«The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
benighted, deplorable, fragile, Lent, novelty, paradoxes
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