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“No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.”

Sometimes Law Subjects Fruit Profession Lawyer Bitter Contempt Dynamics Derision Incomprehension

Author:Irving Kaufman

“One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.”

May Has Beens Fool Bitter Foolishness

Author:Kathleen Norris

“Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.”

Love Heaven Sweet Bitter Cups Paradise Surviving

Book:The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

“Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.”

Thinking Dream Earth Easy Perfect Blood Poet Revolution Tasks Humble Lovely Bitter Acquaintance Involving Down To Earth Filth Disillusioned Tiresome

Author:Lu Xun

“The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.”

Feels Real Found Process Effort Alive Sweet Products Bitter Juice

Book:Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

Source: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

“Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.”

Art Sky Wind Victory Summer Blue Winter Welcome Bitter Thee Vain March Mock Blue Sky Slayer

Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made”

Made Self Age Pain Loss Middle Regret Sorrow Passionate Conclusion Bitter Middle Ages Disillusionment Self Made

Book:Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

“Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.”

Children Littles Parent Water Wonder Principles Taste Bitter Poison Fountain

Book:Locke, Berkely & Hume

Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume

“A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.”

World Made Pain Lost Bitter

Author:William Morris

“It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.”

May Has Beens Country Would Be Nations Difficult Interesting Destiny Virtue Crime Vices Bitter Globes Compulsion Most Interesting Armenians

Author:Lord Byron

“I do consider myself to be a positive person. I'd much rather have my energy be focused on trying to make the world a better place, than to be bitter or negative.”

World Trying Persons Energy Negative Focused Bitter Better Place Positive Person

Author:Dave Smalley

“The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.”

Way Long Method Bitter Personal Experiences

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.”

People Knows Men Should Government Law Rich Vote Surprise Bitter Rip Rich Man Take Control Bitter Experience

Author:Andrew Greeley

“Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory”

Men Victory Ships Bitter Sinking

Author:John Pugsley

“Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.”

Bitter Pleasant

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Through love all that is bitter will be sweet.”

Sweet Bitter

Author:Rumi

“Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.”

Feels Faces Teacher Criticism Bitter Threatened

Author:Stephen Mitchell

“By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?”

Men Long Said Dark Bitter Dumb Tension Dull Belly Monotony Cold Comfort Farm

Author:Stella Gibbons

“I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.”

Years Mind Kind Made Character Strong Media Months Violent Bitter Very Strong Brutal Assault Brutality Strong Mind

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.”

Sweet Fruit Bitter

Author:Aristotle

“Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.”

“It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.”

Sometimes Amount Majors Loyalty Punishment Bitter Unhappiness Bitter Experience

Author:Gordon Allport

“It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.”

Thinking Trying Hands Would Be Weight Filled Trials Bitter Cups Quantity Arrangements Affliction

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality.”

Character Desire Evil Force Development Eternal Add Noble Bitter Temptation Immortality Bliss Aspiration Sublime Attainment Good Character Evil Thoughts Bitter Words

Author:Sivananda

“A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.”

“Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.”

Twenties Hot Wine Bitter Forty Bites Vintage

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.”

Seems Teeth Bitter Serpent Poisonous Bitter Words

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A man with a warm heart is no different than a warm house in the middle of a bitter winter!”

Men Heart Different House Middle Winter Warm Bitter Warm Heart

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.”

May Energy Force Minutes Medicine Painful Bitter Misfortunes Despondency

Author:J. K. Bharavi

“I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.”

People Giving Feels Made Giving Up Bitter Realistic Being Real

Book:This Boy's Life: A Memoir

Source: This Boy's Life: A Memoir

“If you do not feel the bitter cold inside you when you look at the poor trembling out of cold, it means you are lack of compassion; in other words, you are lack of everything!”

Ifs Feels Looks Mean Poor Compassion Cold Bitter Trembling Lack Of Compassion Bitter Cold

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis. The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.”

I Can Water Bitter Desert Oasis

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.”

Sweet Taste Fruit Bitter Forbidden Forbidden Fruit

Author:John F. Kennedy

“God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.”

Used Masters Gold Bitter Servant Helpful Bitter Experience

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.”

Source: The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt

“And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.”

Trying Bitter Mortality Hug Idle Alarms

Book:The Americanness of Walt Whitman

Source: The Americanness of Walt Whitman

“People meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a glass of wine or to shoot up heroin or whatever they do, and they talk their heads off, and a year later it comes out in a book, and there follow years of bitter and fruitless litigation, and that is why you should always keep a writer at arm's length.”

People Should Years Book House Arms Wine Glasses Bitter Friendly Length Invites Heroin Wine Glass

Author:Garrison Keillor

“The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.”

Knows World Liberty Sacrifice Bitter Vigilance Free World

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did.”

Ifs Would Be Lying Desire Wish Pure Affair Flesh Bitter Flames Overwhelming Love Affair Pure Love Premature Cooling Premature Death Younger Days

Author:Petrarch

“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”

Bitter Too Short Life's Too Short

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to: eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it's the best pie. It's on the menu constantly for both parties.”

Sometimes Might Party Taste Eating Humble Bitter Pie Menus Humble Pie Eating Humble Pie

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned. And the source of it all [is] the human mind.”

Mind Humans Dream Reality Source Corners Bitter Confused Human Mind Around The Corner Matched

Book:Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.”

Bitter Resentment Orange Juice Martyrdom Orange Juice

Author:Sherman Alexie

“I'm not bitter at all. I think my memories in Denver are great.”

Thinking Memories Bitter Denver

Author:Clinton Portis

“If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.”

Ifs Doe Turns Christ Sweet Taste Revenge Bitter Peter Cheeks Knights Disarming Turn The Other Cheek Revenge Is Sweet Bitter Taste

Author:Angela Elwell Hunt

“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”

Strong Causes Intellectual Argument Weak Bitter Bitterness Bitter Words

Author:Victor Hugo

“Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.”

Despair Expectations Fruit Disappointment Bitter Discouragement

Author:Guy Finley

“It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.”

Done Evil Left Easy Conflict Tasks Overcoming Injustice Bitter Legacy Hostility Mistrust Easy Tasks Overcoming Evil

Author:Pope Francis

“Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.”

Want Creative Bitter

Book:This Charming Man

Source: This Charming Man

“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.”

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