Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection. [ Colton ]

No evil dies so soon as that which has been patiently sustained. [ W. Secker ]

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. [ Jeffrey ]

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained. [ Ruskin ]

The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character. [ Segur ]

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. [ Aaron Hill ]

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened, and decorated by the intellect of man. [ Charles Sumner ]

Imagine for a moment Napoleon I. to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith! [ Artemus Ward ]

Sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. [ Bryant ]

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection. [ Colton ]

There are two ways of attaining au important end - force and perseverance. Force falls to the lot only of the privileged few, but austere and sustained perseverance can be practiced by the most insignificant. Its silent power grows irresistible with time. [ Madame Swetchine ]