The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
Friendship is no plant of hasty growth Tho' planted in esteem's deep fixed soil, The gradual culture of kind intercourse Must bring it to perfection.
Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.
One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.
He who knows himself best esteems himself least.
There is a great difference between a lofty spirit and a right spirit. A lofty spirit excites admiration by its profoundness but only a right spirit achieves salvation and happiness by its stability and integrity. Do not conform your ideas to those of the world. Scorn the 'intellectual' as much as the world esteems it. What men consider intellectual is a certain facility to produce brilliant thoughts. Nothing is more vain. We make an idol of our intellect as a woman who believes herself beautiful worships her face. We take pride in our own thoughts. We must reject not only human cleverness, but also human prudence, which seems so important and so profitable. Then we may enter like little children, with candor and innocence of worldly ways into the simplicity of faith and with humility and a horror of sin we may enter into the holy passion of the cross.
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