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The Jews, a headstrong, moody, murmuring race.

- John Dryden

source: 1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.45.

topic: Race, Murmuring, Headstrong, Moody

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, James Orchard Halliwell- Phillipps (1855). “The complete works of Shakspere, with historical and analytical introductions to each play, also notes explanatory by J.O. Halliwell and other commentators, illustr. by portraits of actors of the age. [3 vols. With] The doubtful plays, with notes by H. Tyrrell”, p.210

topic: Liberty, Woe, Headstrong

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.187, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Girl, Prejudice, Headstrong, Obstinate

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.10, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Horse, Two, Personality, Different Directions, Headstrong

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

- Cesare Pavese

source: Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.103, Transaction Publishers

topic: Men, Practice, Fool, Headstrong

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

- W. E. B. Du Bois

source: W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.329, Courier Corporation

topic: America, People, Civil Rights, Headstrong

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inexperience, Youth, Blind, Headstrong

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.

- Confucius

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

topic: Passion, Doors, Soul, Headstrong

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

- Farrah Fawcett

source: "Ryan O'Neal: I love Farrah more than ever now" by Michael Inbar, www.today.com. May 13, 2009.

topic: Cancer, Disease, Mysterious, Headstrong

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

- Henry Home, Lord Kames

source: Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.55

topic: Children, Demand, Way, Headstrong

Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2016). “The Comedy of Errors: Third Series”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Eye, Sea, Sky, Headstrong

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