"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'"
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"Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness."
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"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness."
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"A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness."
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"It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife"
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"Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness."
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"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."
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"Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay."
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"Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
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"Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness."
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"Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope."
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"Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven."
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"But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things."
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"No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong."
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"The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it."
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"Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness."
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"Cast from your heart the bitterness."
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"My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will."
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"all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time."
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"Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart."
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