The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.
A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.
Money confounds subordination.
This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.