Vex quotes
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"I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us."
"You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
"If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind."
"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."
"O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer."
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"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold."
"Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life."
"Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations"
"A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words."
"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!"
"We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience."
"It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters."
"It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it."
"Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?"
"It is always our inabilities that vex us."
