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Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)

“The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.”

Has Beens Law Poor Tree Land Danger Despair Fruit Bitter Code Poison Length Fabulous Dilemma Bud Depravity

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.”

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I am remembering,Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,With no meaning, than this bitter one.”

Thinking Giving Remember Sweet Giving Up Bitter Vain Scent Grey

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Edward Thomas (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Edward Thomas (Illustrated)

“There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.”

Happiness Individual Strong Passionate Nostalgia Bitter Craving

Book:Correspondence, 1932-1960

Source: Correspondence, 1932-1960

“For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.”

Stills Bitter Pills Loveless

Author:Jan Struther

“Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.”

Bitter Tire Voyages Knowledge Gained

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.”

People Ifs Persons Has Beens Earth Vision Lord Blessing Bitter Sweetest Sour Blessing You

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.”

Children Different Reading Literature Grows Growing Up Sweet Bitter Flavor Children's Literature

Author:Mizuki Nomura

“As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies”

Has Beens Mother Suffering Father My Own Party Solitude Sick Bitter Servant Chairs Abandoned Tied Agony Amused Perishing

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.”

Ideas Four Comfort Capitalism Dignity Myth Bitter Mockery Benign American Family

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?”

Life Two Drinking Bitter Cups Yummy

Book:The Year Of The Flood

Source: The Year Of The Flood

“For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!”

Men Real Seems Joy Grief Blood Flesh Rings Bitter Toys Torment Trash Pills Flesh And Blood

Book:Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

Source: Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

“If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?”

Ifs Should Matter Sleep Grief Eternal Bitter

Book:On the Nature of Things

Source: On the Nature of Things

“It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.”

Loss Bitter Obituary

Author:Evan Esar

“It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.”

Ifs Would Be Imagination Jokes Dues Bitter Bitterness Cosmic Atrophy

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.”

Speak Guilt Bitter Guilty Bitter Truth

Author:Maxim Gorky

“The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.”

Humans Sweet Creatures Hunger Bitter Sweet Things

Book:The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories

Source: The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories

“Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.”

Men Life Long Dream Life Is Dies Hours Doubt Tears Flower Spring Sick Graves Bitter Dawn Funeral Spring Flowers

Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.”

Heart Achieve Solitude Bitter Toil Cover Ups

Book:The Poems

Source: The Poems

“I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong.”

Humans Ends Law Fighting Evil Force Forever Human Nature Ready Spring Weight Fruit Ancient Seeking Seeds Bars Bitter Inevitable Climbs Traits Restraint Incessantly

Author:James Weldon Johnson

“Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.”

Waiting Increase Bitter Appetite Delay

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup, and gave thanks. So common joys become sacraments, enjoyment becomes worship, and the cup which holds the bitter or the sweet skillfully mingled for our lives becomes the cup of blessing and salvation drank in remembrance of Him.”

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“I like the fact that it [social media] is unfiltered. In other words it's not Geraldo of Fox News or Geraldo of WABC Radio, it's Geraldo. And you know it's raw, unedited, what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, or, you know, some mistakes I'm making in real time. And I see that as a way to go out kicking and screaming. People will be hearing from me 'til the bitter end now.”

People Thinking Knows Way Real Ends Facts Feelings Social Mistake Media News Radio Social Media Hearing Bitter Foxes Kicking Fox News

Author:Geraldo Rivera

“The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.”

Ifs Firsts Moments Seems Goes On Taste Hunger Bitter Hardship Bites Unbearable

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.”

Benefits Disappointment Bitter Injury Reap Bitter Disappointment

Author:Plautus

“But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.”

Heart Highest Smart Bitter Thrones

Author:Edmund Spenser

“In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.”

Want Made Boys Youth Baby Blind Bitter Honey Cunning Venus Hives

Author:Edmund Spenser

“This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.”

People Men Humans Seems Fighting Speak Freedom Human Beings Responsibility Huge Cost Bitter Requirements

Book:You learn by living

Source: You learn by living

“Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.”

Love Soul Sometimes Heaven Sin Love Is Hell Sweet Bitter Cells Gates Honey Clovers Dregs Passwords

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.”

People World Believe States Causes Violence Policy Majors Oppression Bitter Division Palestinian Expansion Israeli

Author:Clare Short

“Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.”

Seeing Catholic Fellows Graves Bitter Formulas Dogma Persecution Heartbroken Protestants Dismayed

Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

“Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.”

Firsts Problem Bigs Together Interest Common Influence Demand Solutions Concern Bitter Partisans Big Problems Common Interests

Author:Barack Obama

“I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.”

Stills Desire Fire Land Pride Fruit Stranger Rage Bread Bitter Suits Boards Feds Fierce Crow Shameless Baffled Clamour

Author:Bhartrhari

“Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

Self Pain Sick Heal Bitter Sickness Bitterness Within You Physicians

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!”

Love Earth Teaching Taught Bitter

Book:Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

“What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?”

Stills Done Song Half Alive Capitalism Defeat Bitter Decay Disillusion

Book:The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise

Source: The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise

“There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.”

Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

“As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God is peaceful and sustained by confidence. You will find by experience how much more your progress will be aided by this simple, peaceful turning towards God, than by all your chagrin and spite at .the faults that exist in you.”

Soul Spirituality Simple Progress Pride Return Reflection Faults Bitter Peaceful Spite Defects Chagrin Disheartening

Author:Francois Fenelon

“I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.”

Stronger Bitter I Have Learned Makes You Stronger Bitter Experience

Author:Mel Gibson

“I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing.”

Interesting Stronger Bitter I Have Learned Interesting Things Makes You Stronger Rhinoceros Bitter Experience

Author:Mel Gibson

“Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.”

Desire Example Sweet Cold Opposites Hot Bitter Dry Void Blunt

Book:The Complete Plato

Source: The Complete Plato

“I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.”

Heart Reason Earth Lasts Humanity Loses Results Taken Groups Influence Significant Resistance Bitter Technological Resisting Exaggerated Amazement Stitches Technological Change

Author:Isaac Asimov

“The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.”

People Giving May Persons Faces Process Sides Trouble Succeed Giving Up Benefits Findings Overcoming Pressure Adversity Trials Bitter Best Things Coming Out Sweetness Persevere

Author:John C. Maxwell

“You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong.”

May Poor Rich Bitter Judgement Bedroom

Book:The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition

Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition

“I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.”

Lasts Interest Terrible Weakness England Depth Betrayal Bitter Ministers Curse Prime Honour Prime Minister Solemn Exhibitions Unfathomable National Interests Infamy Gullibility Dishonour

Author:Enoch Powell

“My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.”

Knows Years Body Age Night Lost Morning Tree Wind Bears Clouds Bitter Fifty Bags Destination Shells Traveler Pilgrim Wallets Peaches Snail Alms Old Trees Morning And Night

Author:Matsuo Basho

“All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.”

“We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”

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