Quotes with grievous

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• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

  ― Marcus Aurelius
  Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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• Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

  ― Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

  ― Anthony Trollope
  British writer (1815 - 1882)
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• Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

  ― Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• consequences
• themselves
• understand
• sufficient
• perversity
• idleness

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