frailty

• Rags and distemper, brackish water and renunciation, forgive, Father, it is finished: those lady's clothes the assumption of which is beyond her, those lady's clothes that after some time a warder comes to take away, remove from beside her as if a cross too heavy for her frailty, her sickness, her narrowed sorrow to bear. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 02 - August 1997
• Do not be afraid of offending by frankness and sincerity: to put me in mind of my own frailty will be the strongest proof of your affection for me. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
• "For frailty Sir For frailty--for wickedness A slight cackle emanated from the ledger, but immediately died away. —  The Mission Of Mr. Eustace Greyne 1905
• There is a vast difference between recognising our frailty which is a fact, and insisting that our nature is made up of nothing else, which is not a fact. —  Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
• Even the best of us try it on a little; we strive to hide our skeletons under the cloak of cheerfulness, and entirely disguise our real feelings Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we For, such as we are made of, such we be THE END —  Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."

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