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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.
pride sickness breaking-down
Charles Dickens There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
pride men becoming
Charles Caleb Colton There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
pride self attractive
Charles Caleb Colton Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
pride may charity
Charles Caleb Colton Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
pride common-sense prudence
Charles Caleb Colton Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
pride self vanity
Charles Caleb Colton Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.
pride charity may
Charles Caleb Colton Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
pride titles would-be
Charles Caleb Colton The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.
pride proud ancestry
Charles Caleb Colton It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
temptation wealth snares
Charles Caleb Colton Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
temptation important weakness
Charles Stanley One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
temptation elbows
William Shakespeare Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.
temptation terrible be-good
Bertolt Brecht Terrible is the temptation to be good.
temptation literature terrible
Bertolt Brecht Temptation to behave is terrible.
temptation virtue
Agnes Repplier Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
temptation chinese succeed
Bob Parsons The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
temptation chastity
Edna O'Brien I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.
temptation littles precursor
Bobby Keys I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.