Hermann Adler
Rabbi
"Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct."
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Strife
47 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jefferson Davis
Politician, Military Leader
"The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena."
Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for."
William Wordsworth
Poet
"Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!"
Heraclitus
Philosopher
"Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'"
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"He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it."
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"It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife"
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"Cruel is the strife of brothers."
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"I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife."
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"We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly."
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"With ills unending strives the putter off."
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"The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife."
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"God helps him who strives hard."
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"All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day."
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"I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith."
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"There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead."
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"God's word is : He who strives never perishes."
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"The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery."
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"The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved."
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"Great is the strife between beauty and modesty."
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"For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life."
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"Waight and measure take away strife."
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"The painter strives and competes with nature."
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"The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed."
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"Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save."
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