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• You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

  Celia Rees

  Sea, Pirate, Luck

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• Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Population, World, Existence

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• A curse on him who begins in gentleness. He shall finish in insipidity and cowardice, and shall never step foot in the great liberating current of Christianity.

  Andre Trocme

  Feet, Steps, Christianity

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• Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

  Steven Erikson

  Fists, Should

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Deadhouse Gates: (Malazan Book Of Fallen 2)”, p.398, Random House

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• You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Country, War, Sacrifice

  Letter to Mayor Calhoun of Atlanta, Ga., and others, 12 Sept. 1864 See Napoleon 11; William Tecumseh Sherman 3

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• And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Ambition, Imagination, Ruins

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• I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.265, Harvard University Press

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• In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."

  Tiffany Shlain

  Mortals

  "Tiffany Shlain on being 'Connected'". Interview with Ysolt Usigan, www.cbsnews.com. September 26, 2011.

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• The pain that you hold is yours. There is not a single pain quite like it. Nobody else on God's green earth can feel this pain, or have the indescribable feeling of pride you will have when you overcome it. This pain is not your curse; this pain is your privilege.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Pain, Pride, Feelings

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• I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

  Oscar Wilde

  Language, Ass, Delightful

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• The next time she comes back, no matter what she says, listen to her well. If she cries, give her a handkerchief and wait until she's done crying. If she curses me, curse with her. And if by any chance she asks about me, tell her that I'm sorry.

  Kim Do-Jin

  Sorry, Giving, Waiting

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• One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Men, Said

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.

  Josh Billings

  Dog

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• An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Eye, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.237

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• The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Spring, Tree, World

  Aleksandar Hemon (2013). “The Book of My Lives”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Evil, Deeds

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• The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

  Edwin Muir

  Mean, Mind, Literature

  1936 Scott and Scotland, introduction.

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• Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Swearing, Havens, Ifs

  Phyllis Bottome (1954). “The Secret Stair”

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• It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Order, Mind, Done

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1340, Library of America

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• Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Life, Success, World

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• A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Discovery, Modern Life, Vastness

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• On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Wall, Revenge

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• A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Trust, Gratitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, School, Play

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• As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Race, Effort, Common

  Abraham Lincoln, H. C. Whitney, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1907). “Speeches and debates, 1856-1858”

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