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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.
pity comment misfortunes
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
pity-love words-of-wisdom thank-god
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! Charles Dickens
pity figures should
It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head. Charles Spurgeon
pity instinct just-listen
Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity. Chris Bosh
pity laugh-at-yourself whining
Never take yourself too seriously. Ariana Grande
pity poor relation
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. Arthur Helps
pity speaking writers
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Arundhati Roy
pity disgusting
Pity is always twinged with disgust. Daniel Quinn
pity
Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil Dante Alighieri