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revenge humble doubt
Charles Caleb Colton There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.
revenge blood fever
Charles Caleb Colton Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
revenge enemy remember
Charles Caleb Colton I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
revenge pay debt
Charles Caleb Colton By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
revenge should-have creative
China Mieville We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge
revenge guilty
Edward Gibbon The revenge of a guilty woman is implacable.
revenge ambition men
Edward Gibbon The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.
revenge hurtful islam
David Hume But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall soon find, that he bestows praise on such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, bigotry, as are utterly incompatible with civilized society. No steady rule of right seems there to be attended to; and every action is blamed or praised, so far only as it is beneficial or hurtful to the true believers.
integrity mean men
Charles Dickens Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
integrity opinion
Charles Caleb Colton The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.
integrity light shining
Alan Watts There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.
integrity arbitrary guarantees
Alan Greenspan There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
integrity self-esteem mean
Alan Greenspan Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
integrity patriotic utterance
Alan Bullock No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.
integrity giving community
Alan Autry We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.
integrity cities broken
Chris Cannon Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.
integrity proud chloe
Chloe Sevigny I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.
mind colour new-thought
Charles Dickens New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
mind gout body
Charles Caleb Colton As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
mind yoke foals
Charles Caleb Colton It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.
mind toadstools insult
Charles Caleb Colton Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
mind christianity holy
Charles Spurgeon When filled with holy truth the mind rests.
mind
Charles Spurgeon Mind your till, and till your mind.
mind trying crosses
Charles Spurgeon Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.
mind going-out senses
Alan Watts By going out of your mind, you come to your senses
mind today humans
Alan Watts I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.