“ Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 2.2K
“ And see where surely Winter passes off,Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts:His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill,The shatter'd forest, and the ravag'd vale;While softer gales succeed, at whose kind touch,Dissolving snows in livid torrents lost,The mountains lift their green heads to the sky. ”
- James Thomson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 700
“ You taught me language; and my profit on'tIs, I know how to curse. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2K
“ This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous. ”
- George Gissing- Copy
- 534
“ Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse. ”
- Bruce Springsteen- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 80
“ Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
- 810
“ But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud — it passes. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'er it touches. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might! ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. ”
- George Gissing- Copy
- 691
“ That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them. ”
- Alex Cox- Copy
- 2K
“ I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots. ”
- Isak Dinesen- Copy
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“ Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. ”
- J. M. Synge- Copy
- 622
“ There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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