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Tag Name "Avenges" (8)

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The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
Henri Bergson
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To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible
Pierre Corneille
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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
Wallace Stevens
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Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
Emile Souvestre
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
Juvenal