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«I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.»
Author: Edward Lear
(Painter, Writer)
| Keywords:
distressed, fiddle, fiddling, The Violin, twin, Twins, violin
«It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| Keywords:
commiserate, commiserates, commiserating, distressed, inspiring, rescues, rescuing, telegram, telegrams, wonder woman
«Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.»
«I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.»
«And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.»
«And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.»
«And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.»
«And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.»
«If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Pain
| Keywords:
be due, distressed, due, dues, due to, estimate, estimates, estimating, external, not due, revoke, revoked, The Thing, thing in itself
«Deserve the Grace of God by helping the weak and poor, the diseased and the disabled, the distressed and the downtrodden.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
disable, disabled, diseased, distressed, downtrodden, the disabled
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