Envy Quotes
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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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In the beginning, envy is revealed through inappropriate zeal and rivalry, and later by fervour with spite and the blaming of the one who is envied.
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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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The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
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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 defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
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America was and still is able to make the necessary changes to maintain research institutions that are the envy 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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The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.
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Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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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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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
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Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.
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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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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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I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
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I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
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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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Despite some struggles of our own, America's business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.
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Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
