Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes

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• The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

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  Happiness, Hatred, Enemy

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• Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Karma

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• It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

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  Inspirational, Abundance, Enjoy

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• It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Spiritual

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• True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

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  Perseverance, Courage, Wind

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• In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

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  Humility, Portraits, Humility And Modesty

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• In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

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  Years, Heaven, Old Friends

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• We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

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  Giving, Tire, Pleasure

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• That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

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  Fields, Youth, Scarecrow

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• An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

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  Bitterness, Vindictive, Angry Women

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• Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

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  Daughter, Spring, Soul

  "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M.ballou, 1886.

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• Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

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  Rivers, Source, Fortune

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• Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

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  Heart, Wrinkles, Youth

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• The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

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  Learning, Men, Wisest Man

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• The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

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  Happiness, Heart, Tender Hearts

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• Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

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  Matter, Ends, Pins

  "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M.ballou, 1886.

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• Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.

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  Sex, Rivalry, Quarrels

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• None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

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  Fame, Claims, Despise

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• Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

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  Life, Self Esteem, Dwarves

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• Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

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  Flames, Envy

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• Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

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  Eye, Hypocrisy, Vices

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• To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

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  Sex, Moving, Keys

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• What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

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  Gains, Illusion, Loses

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• Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

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  Motivational, Temptation, Self Control

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• The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

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  Power, Men, Use

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