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«Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!»
«I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.»
Author: Emily Bronte (Author, Novelist, Poet) | About: Choice | Keywords: vexes, vexing
«It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.»
«But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, That when nae real ills perplex them, They make enow themsel's to vex them»
«I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: countries, Hast, Hearts of, vex, vexes, vexing
«And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead? / But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.»
«A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one»
«I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) / That English is what you speak!»
«Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.»
«Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man»

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