Quotes with bitterness

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  • Henry David Thoreau I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bao Dai As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Maya Angelou Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Lucretius From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Buddha He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Edith Cavell I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Charles Dickens In this world a great deal of the bitterness amongst us arises from an imperfect understanding of one another.
    Speech Birmingham’s Town Hall 30 december 1853
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Madame Guizot Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.
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  • Leo Rosten Satire is focused bitterness.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Audre Lorde Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Abdul Kalam Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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