The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.
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The Confederacy, Act I, sc ii.John Vanbrugh
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I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.
Frances Burney
There cannot be a more intolerable Thing than a fortunate Fool.
Thomas (writer) Fuller
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
John Locke
But whose possession, then, is his soul? Is it not the world’s, since illegitimate possession is no possession; it is not his, for he, of course, must gain it. Consequently, there must still be a possessor. This possessor must possess the soul only as legitimate property but nevertheless must not possess it in such a way that the person himself cannot gain it as his legitimate possession. Therefore, this possessor can be none other than the eternal being, than God himself. p. 166
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