Perplexities Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although…
— John James Audubon
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so…
— John Adams
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Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier…
— William Lyon Phelps
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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life…
— Jim Rohn
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In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and…
— Frances Ridley Havergal
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In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know…
— Charles Simmons
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The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.
— Confucius
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Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book,…
— William Wilberforce
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The answers to the world's perplexities are, in fact, found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ . . . The more we can bring others…
— Truman G. Madsen
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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual…
— Aristotle
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Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take What You Need."…
— Gloria Gaither
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When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this…
— Celia Thaxter
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There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound…
— Joseph Addison
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Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place…
— Owen Wilson
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I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach…
— Criss Jami
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Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can…
— James Anthony Froude
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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
— Robert E. Lee
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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
— Mark Twain
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