#hardens

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. ↗

— George Sand

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It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists. ↗

— Curt Siodmak

#friends #good #hardens #new #new order