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Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them. -- Neil Gaiman
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. -- Benjamin Franklin
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -- Marcus Aurelius
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name. -- Orson Pratt
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind. -- Anthony Trollope
It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism. -- Mary Ritter Beard
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant. -- Saint Basil
It is grievous to be caught. -- Horace
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. -- Aeschylus
Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places. -- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
More grievous than tears is the sight of them. -- Antonio Porchia
A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case. -- Philip Sidney
Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger. -- Homer
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded! -- Juvenal
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief. -- Franz Grillparzer
A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. -- Chilon of Sparta
The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time." -- Emile Zola
To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin. -- Vladimir Lenin
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief. -- Francis Bacon
Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime! -- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils. -- Edmund Burke
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success. -- Tom DeMarco
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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape. -- Victor Hugo
Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow -- George R. R. Martin
God is always near His people, but their sinful behavior may cause His presence to be grievous. -- Max Anders
Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal. -- Sophocles
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer. -- Charles Spurgeon
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether... -- Nikola Tesla
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. -- Alfred de Vigny
People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous. -- Steven Pinker
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. -- Wilfred Owen
We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end. -- Winston Churchill
Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God. -- John Hagee
It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege. -- Adolph Saphir
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. -- Richard Dawkins
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure. -- Kedar Joshi
Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.] -- Ovid
I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others. -- William Shakespeare
The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love -- Johnny Rich
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made. -- Shelby Foote
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Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations. -- John of Kronstadt
No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven. -- M. Russell Ballard
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest. -- Kenneth Kaunda
Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next. -- Djuna Barnes
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey. -- Ben Jonson
It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name -- Orson Pratt
Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden. -- Kristin Cashore
And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. -- Luke the Evangelist
...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance. -- Lawrence Millman
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other. -- Agnes Repplier
Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be concerned about others? Know and examine your own self. -- Tikhon of Zadonsk

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