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Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation! -- Ferdinand Lassalle
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. -- Michel de Montaigne
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. -- Francois Rabelais
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! -- Laurence Sterne
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. -- Max Ehrmann
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations -- Marcus Aurelius
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. -- Francis Bacon
Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit. -- Frederic Reynolds
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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. -- Marcus Aurelius
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation. -- Jane Austen
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation. -- Jeremy Collier
There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and harmony reigns in place of vexation and struggle. -- Henry Thomas Hamblin
We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale... The end of it all is vexation of spirit. -- Walter Weyl
To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind. -- John Tillotson
Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long. -- Laozi
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit. -- Anne Bronte
The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows? -- Lucy Larcom
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair. -- Blaise Pascal
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property. -- Thomas Jefferson
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family. -- George Santayana
Vexation of spirit is a waste of time Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts Verbal conflict is a waste of word Physical conflict is a waste of flesh People will always be who they want And that's what really makes the world go round Unconditional love is scarce... -- Damian Marley
I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation. -- Michel de Montaigne
Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. -- Orville Dewey
We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation. -- Jack Vance
Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation. -- Catherine Wilson
Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness. -- Thomas Paine
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else. -- Sophie Swetchine
For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity. -- Patricia Penton Leimbach
However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot. -- Neil Gaiman
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation. -- Helen Keller

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