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envy design lucky
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be. Charles Caleb Colton
envy praise envious
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
envy reason instinct
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
envy victory spy
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
envy mediocre
Envy is the religion of the mediocre Carlos Ruiz Zafon
envy violence wealth
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. Edward Gibbon
envy secret excellence
it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it. Elizabeth Montagu
envy long together
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails. Edmund Waller
envy people may
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness. Bertrand Russell
merit
Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed. Aiden Wilson Tozer
merit lord devotion
Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion. Chanakya
merit method should
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
merit modesty poor-richard
Great Modesty often hides great Merit. Benjamin Franklin
merit affection
The more merit, the less affection. Baltasar Gracian
merit
I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts. Ben Affleck
merit
Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman. Jean Giraudoux
merits politics prioritize
On my team, we prioritize merits over politics. Ron Barber
merits possessed qualities sublime
May we imbibe all those qualities and sublime merits possessed by gods.
shade my-future
My future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades. Brad Goreski
shades
Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not. Lauren Myracle
shade needs use
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. Alfred Marshall
shade
Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted? Jane Austen
shade
One is but a shade of the other. Danielle Trussoni
shade looks window
I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade. Joan Rivers
shade cruelty benevolence
cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour. Khaled Hosseini
shade kind
With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor. Emily Blunt
shades
Fled / Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night. John Milton