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true-friend ambition character
A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone. Charles Spurgeon
true-friend sharks blood
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. Alan Clark
true-friend thinking knows
The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought? Byron Katie
true-friend love-you opposites
You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
true-friend select
True friends are families which you can select. Audrey Hepburn
true-friend achievement likes
A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements. Arnold Bennett
true-friend real dark
True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark. Denise Martin
true-friend true-friend-is
Instead of looking for a true friend become a true friend. Deepak Chopra
true-friend sorry want
I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am. Cher Lloyd
envy design lucky
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be. Charles Caleb Colton
envy praise envious
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
envy reason instinct
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
envy victory spy
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
envy mediocre
Envy is the religion of the mediocre
envy violence wealth
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. Edward Gibbon
envy secret excellence
it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it. Elizabeth Montagu
envy long together
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails. Edmund Waller
envy people may
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness. Bertrand Russell
coquetry triumph spirit
Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses. Coco Chanel
coquetry elegant elegant-woman
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
coquetry innocence
The most effective coquetry is innocence. Alphonse de Lamartine
coquetry coquette victim
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims. Douglas William Jerrold
coquetry boast
Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
coquetry coquette parades
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.
coquetry my-friends
You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends. Guy de Maupassant
coquetry coquette champagne
Coquetry is the champagne of love. Thomas Hood