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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our unea

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. – William Shenstone

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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. – William Shenstone

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Letters
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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. – William Shenstone

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Beauty
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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor mans hut, as well as the palace of his superior. – William Shenstone

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Hope
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I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back. – Eli Whitney

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I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. – Elia Kazan

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This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Mans loneliness is but his fear of life. – Eugene ONeill

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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from ones enemies. – Leon Trotsky

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Stress flails itself down trying to block every path of happiness. – Terri Guillemets

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There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

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