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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.”
Robert Browning Quotes 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."”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
Bishop Robert South Quotes Source: Sermons
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