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«Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Gratitude,
Misery,
Unhappiness
| Keywords:
grateful, perplex, perplexed, perplexes, perplexing, spared, The World I, unhappiness, unjust
«It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.»
«The most perplexing form of evil, and especially so for all idealists, is that kind of evil which comes out of our efforts to do good. Perhaps when we try to do good without love, we create evil.»
Author: William Irwin Thompson
| Keywords:
comes out, do good, efforts, especially, for all, Idealists, perplex, perplexes, perplexing, The Idealists
«Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
clock, frightened, misfortune, pace, perplex, perplexed, perplexes, perplexing, thunderstorm, thunderstorms
«But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, That when nae real ills perplex them, They make enow themsel's to vex them»
«All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| Keywords:
at times, challenging, perplex, perplexes, perplexing, tranquil
«We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed»
Author: Bible
| About:
God
| Keywords:
abandoned, clay, crushed, hard pressed, jars, jars of clay, perplex, perplexed, perplexing, persecuted, pressed, press down, strike hard, surpassing
«Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? / O sweet content! / Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplexed? / O punishment!»
«The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
assert, bawl, bawled, bawling, Englishman, hiding place, issuing, perplex, working class
«To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Disappointment
| Keywords:
Delicious, employment, futurity, labyrinth, labyrinths, perplex, perplexing, the Poets, thicken
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