My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
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...[I]t is a terrible thing that religious people today can be so indifferent to the cruelty of the farms, shrugging it off as so much secular, animal rights foolishness. They above all should hear the call to mercy. They above all should have some kindness to spare. They above all should be mindful of the little things, seeing, in the suffering of these creatures, the same hand that has chosen all the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things to confound the things which are strong. 'Who so poor,' asked Anna Kingsford more than a century ago, 'so oppressed, so helpless, so mute and uncared for, as the dumb creatures who serve us -- they who, but for us, must starve, and who have no friend on earth if man be their enemy?
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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
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Confound those who have said our remarks before us.
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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.
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A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
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