And so I take to fretting over trifles and seeing slights and unkindness where none were intended.
In near prospect of the eternal judgment, private and temporal judgment can surely afford to declare a universal amnesty in respect of personal slights and injuries.
But fix'd unalterable Care Foregoes not what she feels within, Shows the same sadness every where, And slights the season and the scene.
Can he be strenuous in his country's cause Who slightsthe charities for whose dear sake That country, if at all, must be beloved?
They led her through a long succession of mistakes, falsehoods, slights and wrongs up to the present, and she shivered again, while a heavy drop of blood splashed warm upon her hand.
At that moment he had his revenge for all the slights and all the scorn he had been forced to endure.
On and after that night Aunt Medea took her revenge for all theslights she had received.
My heart, a victim to thine eyes, 5 Should I at once deliver, Say, would the angry fair one prize The gift, who slights the giver?
For the eye is fastened on the life, andslights the circumstance.
It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer.
Intent upon higher ambitions, you were above the petty slights of malice or envy, and with your own goal before you, were steeled against the minor casualties of the journey.
But fixed unalterable Care Foregoes not what she feels within, Shows the same sadness everywhere, And slights the season and the scene.
At their dinners and functions he had to hear open expressions of joy at the news of Southern victories, he had to receive slights both veiled and unveiled, and all this he had to bear with equanimity.
Slights to him were slaps at us, sympathy with the South was an active moral injury to our cause, even if it was mostly an undertone, politically.
And when an earl tuned every grace to win her, She slights his vows: nor gales nor gold can pin her!
She was blessed with a good memory, and one or two well remembered slights from the unconscious objects of her animadversions, rankled bitterly, and she hungered for revenge.
For, as to me, considering my lowly estate, and little merit, even the slights and reflections of the ladies will be an honour to me: and I shall have the pride to place more than half their ill will to their envy at my happiness.
You shall always have your two rooms in the court kept for you; and if anybody slights you, d--- them!
His birth was a source of shame to him, and he fancied a hundred slights and sneers from young and old, who, no doubt, had treated him better had he met them himself more frankly.
Sensitive to the last degree, she will see slights where none are intended, and a chiding word, a reproachful look, or a weary sigh will mean a fit of temper or depression.
Resentment, distrust and misery follow such an exposure, for every innocent look is then translated into a contemptuous glance, and the victim detects slights undreamt of in any brain save his own.
We ought to put a kind construction on what appears neglect on the part of a friend; but when he slights us, it is obvious that he is our friend no longer.
All these Slights of his pretended Friends, and the ill Usage of his Creditors, both he and his Family bore with Christian Fortitude; but other Calamities fell upon him, which he felt more sensibly.
You shall always have your two rooms in the court kept for you; and if anybody slights you, d—— them!
He had been thinking of slights of this sort when he wrote his Epitaph:— Nobles and heralds by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve; Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?
Again, Euripides saith, How can that man be called a slave, who slights Ev'n death itself, which servile spirits frights?
As, when Alexis tempts to debauchery in these verses, The wise man knows what of all things is best, Whilst choosing pleasure he slights all the rest.
To slights from men, unless they were of a nature to provoke offence, he was indifferent.
And now in her prosperity she quite forgave the former slights which had been put upon her by her relatives.
VI Lives there a man whose sole delights Are trivial pomp and city noise, Hardening a heart that loathes or slights What every natural heart enjoys?
Confirm the Spirit glorying to pursue Some path of steep ascent and lofty aim; And, if there be a joy that slights the claim Of grateful memory, bid that joy depart.
We should forget the slightsthat have been put upon us or the insults that have been given us.
We forgive injuries, we survive even our remorse for great wrongs that we ourselves commit; but I doubt if we ever forgive slights of this nature put upon us, or forget circumstances in which our self-love has been made to suffer.
But the poor girl could not easily forget the slights she had received, and amid their new-born kindness she turned naturally to the one who had befriended her while the others behaved rudely.
Miss Elgin's coolness and distrust considerably abated, when she saw Ruth working diligently and bearing with patience the petty taunts and slights of her school-fellows.
Other men have delusions of conceit, and fancy themselves greater than they are, and that the world slights them.
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