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If a Daughter You Have
If a daughter you have, she's the plague of your life,
No peace shall you know, tho' you've buried your wife,
At twenty she mocks at the duty you taught her,
O, what a plague is an obstinate daughter.
Sighing and whining,
Dying and pining,
O, what a plague is an obstinate daughter.
When scarce in their teens, they have wit to perplex us,
With letters and lovers for ever they vex us,
While each still rejects the fair suitor you've brought her,
O, what a plague is an obstinate daughter.
Wrangling and jangling,
Flouting and pouting,
O, what a plague is an obstinate daughter.
poem by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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In Opposition and Obstinate
In opposition and obstinate,
Are those who refuse reform...
To upset any progress of success.
They would rather let...
Their own mothers bleed to death,
Than to take one step forward...
Out of their present state,
Of an obvious darkness.
And why are those in opposition,
With an obstinate condition?
It is a control factor...
They see slipping away,
From greased palms dripping greed.
An economy no longer strong,
Or able to feed a known feast of gluttony...
Is gone.
And an acknowledgement of a desperate reform,
Has most wishing they can prolong,
The signs and affects of an approaching storm!
With the disregarding,
Of the lightening and rumbling thunder!
Unyielding they are...
Like a spoiled child fixed,
To a tantrum encouraged...
To leave those accustomed to it when it comes.
In beliefs what is done will go away if ignored.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
quote by Margaret Thatcher
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I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
quote by Katharine Whitehorn
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
quote by William James
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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
The tongue that concedes will not wear out; obstinate teeth fall out.
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
quote by Francis Aungier
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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
quote by William Cobbett
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There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
quote by William Hazlitt
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
quote by Gabriel Marcel
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
quote by Allan Bloom
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
quote by Barbra Streisand
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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
quote by Kenneth Clark
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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
quote by Bertrand Russell
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