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Contention Quotes

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

Livy (1855). “The History of Rome”, p.129

And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.

Pierre Corneille (2009). “Le Cid”, p.79, The Floating Press

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

Thomas Aquinas (2015). “Summa Theologica”, p.288, Xist Publishing

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.128

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.355