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Letter "V" » vexations
«I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understandingsharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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angry, depart, inspired, mundane, pray, preach, quickened, quickening, quickens, temperament, temperaments, temptations, The Quickening, vexations
«I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.»
«There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.»
«Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.»
«For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? / Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.»
«And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.»
«A wise man should not reveal his loss of wealth, the vexation of his mind, the misconduct of his own wife, base words spoken by others, and disgrace that has befallen him.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
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befallen, befalling, befalls, befell, vexations
«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 slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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division, division of labor, doubtless, drags, expedient, Expedients, irrational, nurses, pedagogue, Pedagogues, sexless, slave labor, unnecessary, vexations, workers
«A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.»
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