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HEROISM:

HEROISM: Heroism, the Caucasian mountaineers say, is endurance for one moment more. -George Kennan There are heroes in evil as well as in good. -La Rochefoucauld Whoever excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes. -Jonathan  Swift: Cadenus and Vanessa

HATE:

HATE: Short is the road that leads from fear to hate. -Giambattista Casti Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low. -Charles Dickens Hate is gained through good deeds as well as bad ones. -Machiavelli We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. -Jonathan Swift It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. -Tacitus People hate, as they love, unreasonably. -W.M.Thackeray

HAPPINESS:

HAPPINESS: The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves; this conviction the blind have. -Victor Hugo We are never so happy, never so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. -La Rochefoucauld The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. -Karl Marx Happiness and Beauty are by-products. -G.B.Shaw We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -G.B.Shaw Happiness is no laughing matter. -Richard Whately

GRATITUDE:

GRATITUDE: Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation: you do not find it among gross people. -Samuel Johnson Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favours. -La Rochefoucauld He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt. -Seneca

GOSSIP

GOSSIP: Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously. -Elbert Hubbard It's merry when gossips meet. -Ben Jonson What some invent the rest enlarge. -Jonathan Swift There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about. -Oscar Wilde

GIVING

GIVING: You need more tact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action. -William Bolitho The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. -Corneille Gifts are scorn'd where givers are despi'd. -John Dryden We do not quite forgive a giver. -Ralph Waldo Emerson A gift much expected is paid, not given. -George Herbert Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. -La Bruyere I find nothing so dear as that which is given me. -Montaigne Giving requires good sense. -Ovid Every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts. -Proverbs 19:6