Confounds Quotes
21 quotes by 16 authors
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
— Edmund Burke
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Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
— Joseph Joubert
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
— William Hazlitt
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An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that…
— Roger Williams
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When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with…
— Mencius
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Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders, confounds, defies evil…
— Andrew Peterson
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Is it acting a true vocation?... I say it is a gift...And fame? Neither sought nor expected... still confounds and amazes and disturbs. Whatever the…
— Ruth Cracknell
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Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the…
— Tertullian
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The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time,…
— Kadmi Cohen
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No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.
— William Shakespeare
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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
— William Shakespeare
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)
— Stephan Pastis
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He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of…
— William Shakespeare
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These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome…
— William Shakespeare
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The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
— Madame De Stael
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Money confounds subordination.
— Samuel Johnson
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Love is the emplem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of begining, all fear of an end.
— Madame De Stael
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When pain of the world surrounds us with darkness and despair, When searching just confounds us with false hopesev'rywhere, When lives are starved for meaning…
— Jim Strathdee
Who Wrote These Confounds Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 21 Confounds Quotes as follows: