"Imbitter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... word, Madam, the notions of another life, far from consoling, are fit only to imbitter all the sweets of the present life. After the sad and gloomy ideas which Christianity, always at variance with itself, presents us with of its God, it then affirms, that we are much more likely to incur his terrible chastisements, than possessed of power by which we may merit ineffable rewards; ...
— Letters to Eugenia - or, a Preservative Against Religious Prejudices • Baron d'Holbach
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— English Grammar in Familiar Lectures • Samuel Kirkham
... always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man—the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he ...
— Many Thoughts of Many Minds - A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age • Various
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— English Grammar in Familiar Lectures • Samuel Kirkham
... before him, the very impersonation of all the vices against which he used to warn me—how exhibit the utter failure of all his teachings and his hopes? What would this be but to imbitter his reflections needlessly. Such were the specious reasons with which I fed my self-love, and satisfied my conscience; but now, as I read his name in that terrible catalogue, their plausibility served me no longer, and at last I forgot myself to ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various |
