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“Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.”

Heart Grief Fate Wounds Bitter Generous Insult Distress Jest Blockheads Generous Heart

Book:The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes

Source: The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes

“There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.”

Mind Heart Kind Feelings Spirit Lying Dies Down And Longing Bitter Sickness Anguish Heart And Mind Remorse Fatigue Weariness Prostration

Book:Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

Source: Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

“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

“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

“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