quotes about Vex
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
-- Edmund BurkeSource : "Three Letters to a Member of Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France" (1796 - 1797)
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The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.
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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.
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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.
-- Hermann Hesse -
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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.
-- John WilkinsSource : John Wilkins (1802). “The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins, Late Lord Bishop of Chester: To which is Prefix'd the Author's Life, and an Account of His Works; in Two Volumes”, p.134
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Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations
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It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.
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Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein -
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Source : "A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" moderated by Chee Pearlman, www.wired.com. January 01, 2001.
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“Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do”
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Source : Source: www.empireonline.com