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gratitude men serenity
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
gratitude revenge games
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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 grateful language
Charles Caleb Colton No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
gratitude appreciation attitude
Charles Caleb Colton True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
gratitude children joy
Charles Spurgeon A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.
pain real power
Charles Caleb Colton To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
pain shadow substance
Charles Caleb Colton Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
pain shadow may
Charles Caleb Colton Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
pain angel reflection
Charles Caleb Colton If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.
pain memories vices
Charles Caleb Colton Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
pain doors hands
Charles Caleb Colton Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
pain hands years
Charles Dickens On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?
pain disappointment father
Charles Stanley Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
pain lying grief
Charles Spurgeon I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.
cheer dark light
Charles Dickens Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
cheer character men
Charles Dickens In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downwards.
cheer live-life fall
Charles Dickens Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends
cheer spirit hundred
Charles Spurgeon I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.
cheer thinking responsible
Ed Balls You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.
cheer ku-klux-klan people
David Duke When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury), they received a peek into their future.
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William Shakespeare And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
cheerful reason yacht
Kurt Vonnegut Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.
cheer government news
Bernard Ingham Confidentiality is the nature of all governments. Of course you may say, the government will always want to communicate the good news; things which bring satisfaction, cheer, help or pleasure to voters. And of course, you are right, governments are not masochists by nature.