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No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit.

Anne Bronte
vexation vanity done

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
vexation eternity world

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
vexation life-is mean
Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will... by Ferdinand Lassalle

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

Ferdinand Lassalle
vexation berlin uprising

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Francois Rabelais
vexation charity men

Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.

Frederic Reynolds
vexation ships sleep

The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.

George Eliot
vexation disappointment may

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

Helen Keller
vexation vanity mind
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations... by Honore de Balzac

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

Honore de Balzac
vexation virtue marriage

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Jane Austen
vexation prejudice littles
I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings... by Jean le Rond d'Alembert

I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

Jean le Rond d'Alembert
vexation insult worn
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right... by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
vexation happiness life
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spir... by Max Ehrmann

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

Max Ehrmann
vexation philosophical spirit
Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still. by Michel de Montaigne

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

Michel de Montaigne
vexation stills may

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Michel de Montaigne
vexation government states

However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.

Neil Gaiman
blithe vexation boots
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full o... by Orville Dewey

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

Orville Dewey
vexation neglect hate

For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

Patricia Penton Leimbach
vexation adversity everyday

In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is the source of their vexation. In an attempt to get rid of that quality, they are looking for some neutral means which will be a nonconductor of the current called "emotion" and its concomitant of evaluation.

Richard M. Weaver
vexation quality mean
Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
vexation nautical sailing
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