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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.
bears pleasure fullness
Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?
bears relation persons
The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them. David Tang
bears ridicule
Love can bear anything better than ridicule. Caitlin Thomas
bears country lions mountain parts tend wolves
We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are, David Baron
bears beat cracked language move time tunes
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. Gustave Flaubert
bears obligation witness
I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time. Athol Fugard
bears fruit seeds
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown Chaim Potok
bears savages our-society
No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies. Benjamin Franklin
bears breeding ill
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
needs normal spirit
If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers. Charles Stanley
needs speak ashamed
He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself. Charles Spurgeon
needs lord rejoice
When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.
needs inbreds values
The need for values is inbred. Their content is not. Alan Greenspan
needs wealth rich
I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to. Alan Bennett
needs enough boycott
When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective. Al Sharpton
needs bronx bodyguard
I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx. Al Pacino
needs logic found
We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
needs way sticks
The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.