Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation… — Patricia Penton Leimbach Copy Share Image
The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against… — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Do not quarrel ... with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you… — William Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As we drew nearer we could see that the three men fishing seemed old and solemn-looking men. They sat on three chairs… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
