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Letter "C" » Contention
"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
About: Contention
"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
About: Contention
"And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot
stand."
Author: Bible
About: Contention
"A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman
are alike."
Author: Bible
About: Contention
"'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
About: Contention
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Contention
"And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
[Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.]"
Author: Pierre Corneille
About: Contention
"Great contest follows, and much learned dust
Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,
And truth disclaiming both."
Author: William Cowper
About: Contention
"Did thrust (as now) in other's corn his sickle.
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,"
Author: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
About: Contention
"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
About: Contention
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