“ Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. ”
- Philipp Melanchthon- Copy
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“ It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. ”
- Freeman Dyson- Copy
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“ A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
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“ Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. ”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Copy
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“ Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ The way of a superior man is three-fold: Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
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“ In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. ”
- Robert E. Lee- Copy
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“ We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand… ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Great twentieth century: sputnik century: what an angst is in you, what wide perplexity! You are a good century and a century of the pit, cannibal century to the ideas you beget, century of the angry young men's target. ”
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko- Copy
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“ As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one… ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world. ”
- Margaret Oliphant- Copy
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“ Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born — a hundred million years — and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together… ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ True generosity requires more of us than kindly impulse. Above all it requires imagination - the capacity to see people in all their perplexities and needs, and to know how to expend ourselves effectively for them. ”
- I.A.R. Wylie- Copy
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