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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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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. – William Shenstone

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Patriotism
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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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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I have no fear of being less beautiful, Ive always been afraid of not being beautiful. – Isabelle Adjani

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When desire dies, fear is born. – Baltasar Gracian

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A line from one of my 1997 columns – Do one thing every day that scares you – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I dont believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. – Mary Schmich

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I beat myself up every day, without so much as a scratch. – Terri Guillemets, “Perfectionism,” 1990

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Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism. – John O. Brennan

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