"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person……" — Thomas Carlyle

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• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
• If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime… — Alphonsus Liguori
• The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than… — 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… — 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… — Shelby Foote
• Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He… — John F. Kerry
• Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and… — John Tillotson
• There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful,… — Hippocrates
• Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why… — Tikhon of Zadonsk

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