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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