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To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home,
To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.

Christina Rossetti

Mother, Home, Heart

Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Real, Cutting, Giving

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Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

Michel de Montaigne

Business, Children, Men

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Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

William Bligh

Summer, Travel, Strong

William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.43, BoD – Books on Demand

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You are strangely troublesome.

William Shakespeare

Sassy

William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.3260, Oxford University Press

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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.

Michel de Montaigne

Running, Kindness, Real

Michel de Montaigne (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters”, p.93

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

George Bernard Shaw

Death, Pain, Heart

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Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.

Cameron Dokey

Dark, Thinking, Your Side

Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

C. S. Lewis

Elephants, Track, Missing

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

George Bernard Shaw

Children, Business, Men

Getting Married (1911) preface "The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy"

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If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Daniel Handler

Book, Reading, Hands

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Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.

Pseudonymous Bosch

Regret, Book, Ideas

Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.7, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend. --City of Ember--

Jeanne DuPrau

Heart, Dark, Cities

Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.93, Random House Books for Young Readers

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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

Plutarch

Work, Men, Criticism

Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.448

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An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

Thomas Overbury

Ambitious, World, Bees

"The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder" by Thomas Overbury,

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His sympathy made tears spring to Lina's eyes. Doon looked startled for a moment, and then he took a step toward her and wrapped his arms around her. He gave her a squeeze so quick and tight that it made her cough, and then it made her laugh. She realized all at once that Doon--thin, dark-eyed Doon with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket and his good heart--was the person that she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.

Jeanne DuPrau

Spring, Heart, Eye

Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.93, Random House Books for Young Readers

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To live
On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces,
Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all
Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for;
This is to be a trickster; and to filch
Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth,
Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend,
You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me,
Is what, when done with a less dainty grace,
Plain folks call "Theft.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Art, Mean, Men

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It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

Josh Billings

Doctors, Sick, Healthy

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The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

Carl Sagan

Morning, Sunset, Moon

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the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

Jane Austen

Son, Years, Hopeless

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.182, BookCaps Study Guides

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I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.

Charlaine Harris

Loss, Dust, Vampire

Charlaine Harris (2012). “Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.149, Penguin

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Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?

Kristin Cashore

Rivers, Doe

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Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

Daniel Handler

Matter

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First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.

Terry Pratchett

Thinking, People, Everyday

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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

George Eliot

Self, Objectivity, Vision

George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.386, Xist Publishing

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