<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537608" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Human Frailty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weak and irresolute is man;<br>The purpose of to-day,<br>Woven with pains into his plan,<br>To-morrow rends away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bow well bent, and smart the spring,<br>Vice seems already slain;<br>But passion rudely snaps the string,<br>And it revives again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some foe to his upright intent<br>Finds out his weaker part;<br>Virtue engages his assent,<br>But Pleasure wins his heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Tis here the folly of the wise<br>Through all his art we view;<br>And, while his tongue the charge denies,<br>His conscience owns it true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bound on a voyage of awful length<br>And dangers little known,<br>A stranger to superior strength,<br>Man vainly trusts his own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But oars alone can ne’er prevail<br>To reach the distant coast;<br>The breath of Heaven must swell the sail,<br>Or all the toil is lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537608" data-title="Human Frailty de William Cowper" data-description="Weak and irresolute is man; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow well bent, and smart the spring, Vice seems already slain; But passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. Some foe to hi..."></div> </div> </div>

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