Strife quotes
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Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
Wit and judgment often are at strife.
-- Alexander Pope -
The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.
-- Alice Meynell -
Cruel is the strife of brothers.
-- Aristotle -
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
-- Edmund Spenser -
love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy ...
-- Ellen Key -
God helps him who strives hard.
-- Euripides -
Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.
-- Hermann Adler -
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Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.
-- Horace -
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.
-- Jefferson Davis -
The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.
-- Lord Acton -
For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.
-- Marcel Proust -
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There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate.
-- Menachem Begin -
There is no advance without strife.
-- Philip Wylie -
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
-- Plutarch -
Rest is sweet after strife.
-- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton -
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Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession
-- Robert S. Jepson, Jr. -
I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
-- Sam Houston -
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
-- Thomas Gray -
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
-- William Wordsworth -
Polygamy causes a lot of strife
-- Yoshiko Sakurai
