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gratitude circles fire
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Charles Caleb Colton
gratitude men serenity
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.
gratitude dross made
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
gratitude revenge punctual
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
gratitude revenge games
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
gratitude powerful yield
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
gratitude revenge adversity
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
gratitude grateful language
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
gratitude appreciation attitude
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
bent good red talked
We bent a little, but we didn't break. That was a big thing that we talked about all week, being good in the red zone. Jim Johnson
bent life news others police public spun web
The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. Thomas Watson, Jr.
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It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts. Timothy Noah
bent happened
This probably couldn't have happened back then. The bent back then was historicism. Ken Hayes
bent common education forms inclined tis twig
Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined Alexander Pope
bent boldness lose mean offend scientists
I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen. Taylor Wilson
bent feels happened leg scared
My leg is fine. It got kind of bent up there and that hadn't happened in a long time, ... It feels pretty good, but I was kind of scared at first.
bent buck control happen somewhat worked
Buck and I are somewhat alike. We don't get worked up or bent out of shape. Things are going to happen and you can't control it. Lee Smith
bent follow fool fools-and-foolishness natural
But a fool must follow his natural bent / (Even as you and I!). Rudyard Kipling