quotes about Strife
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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 ProcterSource : Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.15
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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 -
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
-- Edmund SpenserSource : The Shepherd's Calendar "July" l. 99 (1579)
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love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy ...
-- Ellen KeySource : Ellen Key (1911). “Love and Marriage”
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Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.
-- Hermann AdlerSource : "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 933, (One-volume edition), 1937.
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The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.
-- Jefferson DavisSource : "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government".
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The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.
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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 WylieSource : Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (2016). “After Worlds Collide”, p.185, Macmillan
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Rest is sweet after strife.
-- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonSource : "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (Part I, Canto VI, Stanza 25), 1860.
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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.
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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