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If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
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People often grudge others when they cannot enjoy themselves.

aesop

— The Dog in the Manger

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I have in this War a burning private grudge which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe , which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light .

j. r. r. tolkien

— No. 45: To his son Michael Tolkien (09 June, 1941)

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Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the L.

Bible (Old Testament)

— ORDLeviticus19:18.

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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge if he couldn't take it any other way.

O Henry pseudonym of  William Sydney Porter

— 1908  The Gentle Grafter,'The Octopus Marooned'.

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Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.

hesiod

— line 25. (Works and Days (c. 700 BC))

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There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.


— "1901", p. 66

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Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.


— "The Power Urge," essay in The Spectator (15 December, 1982); reprinted in Another Voice (1986)

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All gifts but one the jealous God may keep From our soul's longing, one he cannot—sleep. This, though he grudge all other grace to prayer, This grace his closed hand cannot choose but spare.

algernon charles swinburne

— Algernon Charles Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse, Prelude to Tristram and Iseult, line 205.

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Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

Robert Browning

— Rabbi Ben Ezra.

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When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet.

steve maraboli

— Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010, p. 135)

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All gifts but one the jealous God may keep From our soul's longing, one he cannot sleep. This, though he grudge all other grace to prayer, This grace his closed hand cannot choose but spare.

algernon charles swinburne

— Algernon Charles Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse, Prelude to Tristram and Iseult, line 205.

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Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.


— line 25.

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Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but though shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.


— Leviticus 19:18

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If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation; and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, Which he calls interest.


— Shylock, scene iii

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Once bitten twice shy, and several times bitten, then you make a rule about it. People from Yorkshire, we have found, are dour and nurse a grudge. One thing you can't put up with on expeditions are people who search for trouble, then nurse it when they have found it.


— Sir Ranulph Fiennes

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I understand the bombings brought the war to its end. I think it was something that couldn't be helped. [...] Luckily Hokkaid? was not occupied. In the worst case, Hokkaido could have been taken by the Soviet Union. [...] I don't hold a grudge against the United States.


— Fumio Kyuma, June 30, 2007 [43]

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