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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
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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.
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It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
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Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
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An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
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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.
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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.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. Tullian Tchividjian
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I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will. Charles Spurgeon
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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. Charles Dickens
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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity Joseph Addison
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Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease Thomas Haliburton
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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
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Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends. Louisa May Alcott