It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Not so in haste, my heart! Have faith in God and wait; Although he linger long, He never comes too late. He… — Bradford Torrey Copy Share Image
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