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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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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
— Aeschylus
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The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which…
— Howard W. Hunter
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People can commend the weather without envy.
— William Shenstone
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Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful…
— Gustav Stresemann
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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
— William Shenstone
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In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
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To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men…
— Virginia Woolf
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Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.
— Isaac Asimov
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There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as…
— Kathryn Budig
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Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
— Bantu Holomisa
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