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Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
"I'm heart sick," whispered a crestfallen Nicklaus.
It "makes your heart sick," Nixon told Kissinger, for the Pakistanis "to be done so by the Indians, and after we have warned the bitch".
To the people of Northern Ireland, anxiously watching as their tragic past keeps its grip on their future, the saying in Proverbs painfully applies: "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick".
There are so many places and people that need attention and love in this country and in the world -- I try to not be overwhelmed with that -- but, it's easy for me to feel heart sick for all of it -- so I have to keep transcending it all and stay strong in my walk and in what moves me in passion and rests me in reason.
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When the heart-sick Joel asks if the procedure causes brain damage, Dr. Mierzwiak replies, "Technically, it is brain damage".
He wished to see a world in which there were neither "brain-sick brain workers, nor heart-sick hand workers … in which all men would be living in equality of condition".
Discharged in September 1864, having survived the battles of The Wilderness ("the most terrible 24 hours of our service in the war"), Cold Harbor ("How long will it take to whittle us away?"), Petersburg and many in between, Dawes wrote to his wife, Mary, from Washington, "I am fairly heart-sick at the stories of blood I hear from the old regiment.
His opening scene is particularly genius, as he tries to knock sense into his heart-sick child who's pining over a mirage of a person half his age: "Tell me one bad thing about her! Just one bad thing that drives you batshit crazy!
Hear me, my chiefs; my heart is sick and sad.
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