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5 Quotes for 'Paradoxes' in the Database.
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Paradoxes Quotes
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For thence,--a paradox
Which comforts while it mocks,--
Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:
What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me:
A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Rabbi-Ben-Ezra (st. 7)
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Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my
friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us
the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VI)
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You undergo too strict a paradox,
Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (First Senator at III, v)
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These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' th' alehouse.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at II, i)
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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things
paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Author: Bishop Robert South
Source: Sermons
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