Grievous Quotes

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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. — Thomas Carlyle
If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at… — Alphonsus Liguori
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. — Wilfred Owen
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. — Aeschylus
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny
No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by… — M. Russell Ballard
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success. — Tom DeMarco
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is… — Shelby Foote
Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat… — John F. Kerry
Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and… — John Tillotson
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen,… — Hippocrates
Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be… — Tikhon of Zadonsk
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated — Friedrich Nietzsche
... it [masturbation] too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual… — Spencer W. Kimball
And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the… — Luke the Evangelist
Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God. — John Hagee
Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to the… — Richard Dawkins
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only… — John Lothrop Motley
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether... — Nikola Tesla

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