John Webster - Jonathan Swift - Ecclesiastes 1:14 - William Shakespeare - Laurence Sterne -
6,528. There’s nothing of so infinite vexation
As man’s own thoughts. (Think & Vex) John Webster, The White Devil
92,618. Daphne knows, with equal ease,
How to vex and how to please,
But the folly of her sex
Makes her sole delight to vex ... Jonathan Swift, Daphne 1667-1745
58,942. All is vanity and vexation of the spirit. (Vanity & Vexation) Ecclesiastes 1:14
92,619. Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled
To appoint myself in this vexation? William Shakespeare, A Winter’s Tale I ii 327-328, Leontes
92,620. What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! (Vexation & Sorrow) Laurence Sterne