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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 war years
Edward Gibbon In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former splendour and tranquillity. The venerable matron replaced her crown of laurel, which had been ruffled by the storms of war, and was still amused in the last moment of her decay with the prophecies of revenge, of victory, and of eternal dominion.
delight ifs settings
Charles Spurgeon If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.
delight holiness pleasure
Charles Spurgeon We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.
delight world christianity
David Brainerd Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
delight flattery praise
William Shakespeare Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.
delight guests leisure
Agnes Repplier Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
delightful
Marcus Tullius Cicero There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
delight happiness run seem
Nick Harkaway Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.
delight despised
Sidonie Gabrielle What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised
delight impossibility
Billy Sunday We have a God who delights in impossibilities.