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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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• 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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• the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

  John Knowles

  Tone, Separate Peace, Force

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.

  Jacques Roumain

  Music, Song, Father

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• For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall his soul find rest unto eternity. Such is the curse of Amon-Ra, king of all the gods.

  Griffin Jay

  Kings, Fate, Soul

  "Fictional character: The High Priest". "The Mummy's Hand", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.

  Richard Jordan

  Love, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse.

  Griffin Jay

  Achievement, Monsters, World

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