The indulgence of revenge ...

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.
 Henry Home, Lord Kames

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
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A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
 Henry Home, Lord Kames
An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.
 Henry Home, Lord Kames
Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.
 Henry Home, Lord Kames
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.
 Henry Home, Lord Kames
A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.
 Henry Home, Lord Kames