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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.
compassion sick confusion
Charles Dickens Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain!
compassion students computer
Alan Perlis When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
compassion heaven gold
Alan Paton And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
compassion long people
Alan Alda Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
compassion light hesitation
Chogyam Trungpa Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things
compassion creative be-kind
Chogyam Trungpa When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up
compassion silence darkness
Edith Wharton What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
compassion careers empathy
Audrey Hepburn nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.
compassion two people
Bill Nighy One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.
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.