Quotes with convulsion

  • Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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  • Emily Dickinson I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Alexander Pope Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Laughter - An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Laughter: An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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