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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.
yesterday knows
I am but of yesterday, and know nothing. Charles Spurgeon
yesterday nuts today
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. David Icke
yesterday may tomorrow
If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow. Denis Waitley
yesterday giving want
Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured. Deborah Harkness
yesterday political demise
When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday. Bill O'Reilly
yesterday eras commodity
In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday. Chang-Rae Lee
yesterday waiting house
I was going to do a big radio show, and I said to my driver, 'Radio can wait, take me to the Full House house.' It literally was a drive-by. I photobombed the Full House house yesterday. I took like 20 pictures because I thought I didn't look good in any of these - you can't see the house! You gotta really show that that's the house! Bob Saget
yesterday what-is-love rose
The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades? Edgar Lee Masters
yesterday errors forever
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever. Barbara Tuchman
vacancy crowded
I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her. Graham Greene
vacancy world authority
from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this. Mark Twain
vacancy birth consciousness
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance J. K. Rowling
vacancy calm gloomy
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. Samuel Johnson