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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.
resentment mainstream
There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream. Anurag Kashyap
resentment unconscious
More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment. Edward Sapir
resentment forgotten sometimes
It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten. Lord Chesterfield
resentment get-up difficult
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. John Henry Newman
resentment justified worst
The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep. Louis Gossett, Jr.
resentment deny resentful
If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point? Vanessa Marcil
resentment justified
There are no justified resentments. Wayne Dyer
euphemism spoilt
Spoilt is a euphemism for loved. James Nesbitt
euphemism
Euphemisms are for the differently brained. Spider Robinson