#confound

The attempt and not the deed confounds us. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them. ↗

— Roger Caras

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Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

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You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. ↗

— William Wycherley

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You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art. ↗

— Kit Williams

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. ↗

— Aristotle

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