Johnny Cash
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars."
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Frail
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Ovid
Poet
"Beauty is a frail good."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest."
Cormac McCarthy
Novelist, Screenwriter
"The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't."
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"How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought."
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"Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are."
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"Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable."
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"Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill."
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"A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years."
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