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“This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.”

Spirit Party Moral Effects Judgment Ill Great Ones

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.”

Thinking Littles Done Character Spirit Speak Given Hurt Angry Charity Ill Proof Considering

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick-bed with thorns, and rack our sinking spirits with despair.”

World Care Remember Spirit Passion Hours Sin Darkness Bed Despair Sick Ill Guilty Remembrance Indulgence Thorns Sinking Compliance Racks

Author:Reginald Heber

“Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of triumph, come not nigh unto her; but when she be ill or weary, when she is cast down in spirit and needeth a comforter, then be thou ready, and make thy suit.”

Spirit Hours Ready Victory Casts Ill Suits Triumph Weary Propose Comforter

Author:Gelett Burgess

“A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.”

Spirit Certain Animal Enemy Safety Ill Strikes Spite Excess Caution Deliberate Good Humor Animal Spirits

Author:William Hazlitt

“Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.”

Mind May Spirit Wise Fool Bears Equal Behavior Glory Fairs Adversity Brave Fortune Ill Storm Cards Thee Pilots Sail Gale

Author:Francis Quarles

“Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.”

Want Wells Made Spirit Force Wish Goodness Sight Ill Prosperity Vices Envy Malice Meanness Lament Good Nature

Author:Jeremy Collier

“For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Greggs bakers, though, Ill say that. The opening of the 1977 Star Wars movie was possibly the only time Ive seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.”

People War Enough Eye Spirit Stars Rounds Ill Opening Block Only Time Sausage Bakers Queues Glasgow War Movie Star Wars Movie

Author:Darren Boyd

“I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.”

Inspirational Should Spirit Common Share Creation Broken Sorrow Should Have Ill Bent

Book:Hard Times

Source: Hard Times

“Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.”

World Giving Mind Looks Spirit Certain Greatness Raises Fortune Ill Appearance Noble Disaster Petty Good Fortune High Places

Book:The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)