provocation quotes

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fatherstempted me, proved me, and saw my work.Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 95:8^11.

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

- Alexander Pope
  Imitations of Horace, epilogue to the satires, dialogue 2, l.197^8.