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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Anger
Maya Angelou

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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Education
Aristotle

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The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!
Quality
Leon M. Cautillo

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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Patriotism
Edith Cavell

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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Conscience
Dante Alighieri

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The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
Effort
Albert Einstein

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Death and Dying
Erich Fromm

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
Failure
German Proverb

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Mind
Kahlil Gibran

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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Pessimism
Samuel Goldwyn

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Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
Poverty and The Poor
Greek Proverb

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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Experience
Wilfred T. Grenfell

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.
Life and Living
David M. Heath

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Argument
Victor Hugo

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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!
Epitaphs
Helen Hunt Jackson

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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Merit
Walter Savage Landor

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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Parents and Parenting
John Locke

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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
Wit
Lucretius

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What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
Taste
Lucretius

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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
Sex
Henry Miller

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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
Churches
William Penn

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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
Beauty
Arthur Rimbaud

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Satire is focused bitterness.
Sarcasm
Leo Rosten

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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Patience
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Repentance
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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