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Letter "P" » perplexities
«Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.»
Author: Margaret Oliphant
| Keywords:
accompaniment, embarrassment, embarrassments, on the whole, perplexities, perplexity, The Embarrassment, uninteresting
«At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
at the bottom, bottom, conflict, expanse, experiences, over and over, perplexities, perplexity, The Bottom, this one
«In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.»
«. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was--a woman.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| Keywords:
crossed, despite, ghosts, goblin, goblins, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, passed, perplexities, perplexity, pleasant, put together, The Witches, witches, witching
«For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.»
«And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; / Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
distress, failing, perplexities, perplexity, roaring, shaken, star sign, waves
«The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.»
«All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
circulation, coin, confederation, downright, perplexities
«Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
beginning, perplexities, perplexity, The Beginning
«Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born /a hundred million years /and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
annihilation, holiday, perplexities, perplexity, put together, resume, resumed, resumes, resuming, sense of responsibility, serenity, terrors, unbroken
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