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• There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Christian, Fire, Forgiving

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• a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

  Muriel Lester

  War, Passion, Generations

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• The best revenge against bullies is absolutely, resolutely, never to let them change who you are. Know that whatever bullies say or do - it comes from their weakness, not yours.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Bully, Weakness, Knows

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• Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

  Bill Vaughan

  Taken, People, Sorcery

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• Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.

  George Herbert

  Pardon, Slander

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.333

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• Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

  Lucy Freeman

  Suicide, Hurt, Risk

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• If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

  Henry Spencer

  Lying, Programming, Software Engineering

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• Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 of us who auditioned, and 11 of us were hired. I went through all of the training, but never ended up actually getting to play Belle because 'Revenge' started. It was the time of my life, though!

  Christa B. Allen

  Princess, Play, Training

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And uh, so, I'm running for a reason. I'm answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative. And so to answer your question, I'm going to win because people sense my heart, know my sense of optimism and know where I want to lead the country. And I tease people by saying, "A leader, you can't say, follow me the world is going to be worse." I'm an optimistic person. I'm an inherently content person.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Running, Heart

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

  Edward Gibbon

  Gratitude, War, History

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.19

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• The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ambition, Men, Safety

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.488

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• The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine gave them security, wealth, honours, and revenge; and the support of the orthodox faith was considered as the most sacred and important duty of the civil magistrate. The edict of Milan, the great charter of toleration, had confirmed to each individual of the Roman world the privilege of choosing and professing his own religion.

  Edward Gibbon

  Memories, Grateful, Passion

  Edward Gibbon (2013). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former splendour and tranquillity. The venerable matron replaced her crown of laurel, which had been ruffled by the storms of war, and was still amused in the last moment of her decay with the prophecies of revenge, of victory, and of eternal dominion.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Years, Cities

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.338, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Ordinary, World, Madness

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• I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mothers family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Mother, Father, Yankees

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• The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, Black, Panthers

  "A Closer Look at the New Black Panther Party". 6abc.com. November 09, 2010.

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• As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

  Alberto Manguel

  Lying, Heart, Essence

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• Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Rights, Today

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.390, Penguin

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• Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Real, Men, Kind

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• For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.

  James A. Garfield

  Looks, Vengeance, Mere

  Speech in New York City on April 15, 1865. "The Life and Work of James A. Garfield". Book by John Clark Ridpath, p. 194, 1882.

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• It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hate, Enemy, Weakness

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• Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Taken, Should Have, Play

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• Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Kings, Victory

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 638

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• Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady MIND in the long run, and to take her revenge too transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portait of Yesterday.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Running, Cutting, Yesterday

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Halmi (2002). “Opus Maximum”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Heart, Compassion

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including “The Life of Thomas Paine” – Extensive Biography of the Author”, p.8, e-artnow

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