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And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for
we be brethren.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. XIII, v. 8)
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Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and
a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on
usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them
doth curse me.
Author: Bible
Source: Jeremiah (ch. XV, v. 10)
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And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot
stand.
Author: Bible
Source: Mark (ch. III, v. 25)
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A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman
are alike.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXVII, v. 15)
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'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they
may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy
face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more
as bad in a moment.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sc. 3, mem. 7)
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 195)
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And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
[Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Le Cid (IV, 3)
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust
Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,
And truth disclaiming both.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. III, l. 161)
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Did thrust (as now) in other's corn his sickle.
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,
Author: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--Second Week, Second Day (pt. II)
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So when two dogs are fighting in the streets,
When a third dog one of the two dogs meets:
With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,
And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: Tom Thumb the Great (act I, sc. 5, l. 55)
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When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both
sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most
at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact
with it.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: The Marble Faun (vol. II, ch. XXII)
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But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast,
For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof
From sharp contentions.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. IX, l. 317), (Bryant's translation)
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Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;
And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. VII, l. 364), (Pope's translation)
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Agreement exists in disagreement.
[Lat., Mansit concordia discors.]
Author: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
Source: Pharsalia (I, 98)
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The chiefs contend only for their place of burial.
[Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.]
Author: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
Source: Pharsalia (VI, 811)
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You will stir up the hornets.
[Lat., Irritabis crabones.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Amphitruo (act II, 2, 75)
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Stir up the hornets.
[Fr., Irriter les freslons.]
Author: Francois Rabelais
Source: Pantagruel
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Contentions fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: Peveril of the Peak (ch. XL)
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The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
[Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discordibus constat.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Nat. Quoest (bk. VII, 27)
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Thus when a barber and collier fight,
The barber beats the luckless collier--white;
The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,
And, big with vengeance, beats the barber--black.
In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'er spread,
And beats the collier and the barber--red;
Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss'd,
And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.
Author: Christopher Smart
Source: A Trip to Cambridge, soliloquy of the Princess Periwinkle
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In excessive altercation, truth is lost.
[Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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