#torment

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ↗

— William Penn

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Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love. ↗

— Dan Savage

#dead #even #got #lives #love

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. ↗

— Richard Steele

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Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. ↗

— Baron de Montesquieu

#bored #come #content #fool #generations

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#heresy #punishment #religion #scripture #suffering

No, I'm not anguished and tormented. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious. ↗

— Peter Lombard

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