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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people…
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When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
— Robert Herrick
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
— Seneca the Younger
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The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but…
— Francis Beaumont
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But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Do no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have…
— Dogen
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
— Cato the Elder
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
— Ben Jonson
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Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.
— Robert Herrick
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A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem...
— Sara Shepard
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