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• Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we maynot hope to follow; to wait while drop by drop the curse of the longcenturies falls upon our imperishable being, like water slow drippingon a diamond that it cannot wear, till they be born anew forgetful ofus, and again sink from our helpless arms into the void unknowable.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Love, Fall, Thinking

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.6785, Delphi Classics

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• Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Blessing, Men

  Erich Fromm (1963). “War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness”

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• See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kings, Garden, Sweat

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1928). “Morning and Evening: Daily Readings”, p.404, CCEL

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• Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable... and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again.

  Wally Schirra

  Dirty, Biblical, Pride

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• That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Phones, Play

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• The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Rain, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.203, Penguin

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• Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.

  Chip Heath

  Mean, Experts, Nuance

  "Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck". Book by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, 2006.

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• The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.

  Max Weber

  Father, Different, Tasks

  "Max Weber". Book by Reinhard Bendix, p. 53, 1960.

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• I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

  Robert Sheckley

  Blessing, World, Novel

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• There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Work, Men, People

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• The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

  Mark Gatiss

  Real, Thinking, Horror Stories

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• I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Thinking, Engineering, Ideas

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• The curse of the sun and the moon is fake. It doesn`t exist.

  Elijah

  Moon, Fake, Sun

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• It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Men, White Man

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• When our Lord looked at us, He saw not only what we were -- He was faithful in seeing what we could become! He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious blessing of becoming.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Blessing, Faithful, Saws

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• The fact that we are aware of ourselves is both our greatest curse and also our greatest blessing.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Blessing, Facts, Awareness

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• To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doubt, Age, Quests

  Deepak Chopra (2011). “Unconditional Life: Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams”, p.81, Bantam

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• A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

  Theodor Haecker

  Sight, Hands, Wish

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• An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should exist among the people of God. It is a principle originated in hell; it is the root of all evils. It is inequality in riches that is a great curse.

  Orson Pratt

  Roots, People, Evil

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• Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wise, Cutting, Men

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.93, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

  John W. Gardner

  Fate, Men, Pay

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• I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Shut Up, Miserable, Enjoyment

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus”, p.160, First Avenue Editions

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• No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

  Plato

  Death, Blessing, Men

  Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

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• Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively.

  Haile Selassie

  Determination, Fall, Hard Work

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• Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Land, America, Perfection

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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