Vexation Quotes
46 quotes by 39 authors
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All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich…
— William Shakespeare
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No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If…
— Sun Tzu
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So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations…
— Richard Henry Lee
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to…
— Zhang Sanfeng
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I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the…
— J. D. Sedding
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None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most…
— Samuel Johnson
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I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.
— Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
— Honore de Balzac
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There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
— Samuel Johnson
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As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the…
— Frances Sargent Osgood
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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But…
— Laozi
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The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and…
— George Santayana
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The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas:…
— Lucy Larcom
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