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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. — Benjamin Franklin
The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to… — Djuna Barnes
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've… — Neil Gaiman
You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each… — C.S. Lewis
It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape. — Victor Hugo
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! — Madeleine L'Engle
Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving… — E. M. Forster
..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse… — Yukio Mishima
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. — Richard Dawkins
All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
On that very night, the night of the greatest suffering that has ever taken place in the world or that ever will take place, the… — Jeffrey R. Holland
To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life,… — Kristin Cashore
Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow — George R. R. Martin
To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils. — Arthur Schopenhauer
She reached up and curled her fingers into mine. “He should take you to dinner.” To say that the mere thought horrified me would have… — Darynda Jones
Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom… — Friedrich Nietzsche
People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous. — Steven Pinker
Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay,… — Benjamin Franklin
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it — Bible
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die. — Bible
The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure. — Kedar Joshi
Being misunderstood is grievous but worse still is telling all you know just because the facts would vindicate you. — Lorinda Frankenberry

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