“Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.” MenGivingLittlesSoulTurnsMadnessWineSpotsVanityIdiotIndifferenceBitternessDisplayResentmentAssassinsDeformity Book:The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes Source: The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes
“Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.” SoulHurtHatredBitternessVessel Author:Rubin Carter
“We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.” MayLittlesSoulJoyDesireDisappointmentBitternessMultitudes Author:John Lancaster Spalding
“Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.” MaySoulGrowsSinFireDivineFruitEnvySubtleBitternessDivine LoveAcidFluidIniquity Author:Hosea Ballou