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“We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.”

Knows World Humans Character Nature Half Strength Human Nature Arms Weakness Blue Instance Poison Pockets Verses Grotesque Vigilant Resolute Strength And Weakness Stockings Haughty

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!”

Sometimes Nature Weakness Harder Folly Betray Tenderness Bosoms Pastime

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.”

Humans Nature Human Nature Weakness Observers

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”

Humans Literature Nature Human Nature Weakness Temper Inconsistency Mutability

Book:A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian, for the use of young persons, by E. Berens

Source: A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian, for the use of young persons, by E. Berens

“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.”

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French