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«How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.»
Author: Catharine Esther Beecher
| About:
Disappointment,
Heart,
Suffering
| Keywords:
disappointment, earthly, extremities, extremity, felicities, felicity, revealed, trained
«It is in plunging into the stream of life itself and entering into the deepest involvement with the values that confront us, exercising our wills to the utmost-to the breaking point-that we find God in the very extremity of the battle.»
«Man's extremity is God's opportunity.»
«So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.»
«One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.»
Author: Thomas Arnold
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
cheerful, extremities, extremity, midday, out of place, playful, tranquil, under it, work at
«Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
enjoyment, extremities, extremity, giving birth, intended, in labor
«But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: / Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.»
«Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Common sense,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
extremities, extremity, good sense, shuns, sobriety
«Violent men reel from one extremity to the next»
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