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    Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

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    Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.

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    Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

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    From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

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    Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

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    Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

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    Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.

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    Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

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    Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

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    Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

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    Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

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    Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

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    HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

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    I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.

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    I don't know why I don't watch the Oscars. It's not bitterness or anything; it just seems weird.

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    If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

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    I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over.

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    If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

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    I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

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    If you are harboring the slightest bitterness toward anyone, or any unkind thoughts of any sort whatever, you must get rid of them quickly. They are not hurting anyone but you. It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things - you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.

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    I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

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    I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

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    I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

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    I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

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    "I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else

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    I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

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    ... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

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    Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

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    I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

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    In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

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    In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.

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    It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

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    It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.

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    I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.

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    It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.

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    It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.

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    It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

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    It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

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    It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.

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    It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

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    It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

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    Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

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    I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

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    Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

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    Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

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    Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.

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    I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

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    Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

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    Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.

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    Most jokes state a bitter truth.

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