Envy Quotes
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Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.
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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
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I actually envy actors who have a persona: 'This is the way I am. This is the part I play.' And do it over and over and over. To me, that's a lot easier than trying to reinvent yourself every six months.
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I mean not to boast; I would not excite envy, but manly emulation. We have all one common cause; let it, therefore, be our only contest, who shall most contribute to the security of the liberties of America. And may the same kind Providence which has watched over this country from her infant state still enable us to defeat our enemies!
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This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!
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I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good – fortune.
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The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.
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Despite some struggles of our own, America's business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.
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God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
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I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.
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The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
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Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
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I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
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Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
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I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope.
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Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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Envy suggests inferiority.
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
