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Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.

The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.

10 Tips for Overcoming Bitterness 1. Avoid anger. 2. Live joyfully. 3. Shun envy. 4. Practice gratitude. 5. Seek peace. 6. Forgive. 7. Be content. 8. Tame your ego. 9. Murmur less. 10. Love more.

A blameless heart is without bitterness.

A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.