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It is always our inabilities that vex us.
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.
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.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.
Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.
The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.
O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.
This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
By the way, all joking aside, do I call you Ghastly or Elder Bespoke?' 'You can call me whatever you like.' Vex nodded. 'Thank you, Gladys.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
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.
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?
