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Letter "F" » frail
«How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought...»
Author: Sylvia Plath
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
frail, frailer, frailest, Human heart, mirrored, pool, pooled
«Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children -- honored as the jewelry of God only by them -- when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.»
«Life is a frail moth flyingCaught in the web of the years that pass.»
«My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, / LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.»
«Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.»
«It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
brute, force field, ford, fortnight, frail, Green Grass, Henry, Henry Ford, Henry V, Hercules, napoleon, overbear, overbearing, overborne, sensitiveness, supports, terrific
«His heart was mailed with oak and triple brass who first committed a frail ship to the wild seas.»
«Every sense hath been o'erstrung, and each frail fibre of the brain sent forth her thoughts all wild and wide»
«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.»
«I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
babble, babbling, corruption, drunkenness, frail, frailer, frailest, ingratitude, inhabits, taint, Taints
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