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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON CURSES
I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.
Nicholas Breton (1545-1626, British author, poet)
Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Cursing the weather is never good farming.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to a statement you wish to make.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
St. Basil (329-379, Bishop of Caesarea)
Curses are like chickens; they always come home.
Author Unknown
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller (1606-1687, British poet)
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