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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
fame phenomenal being-famous
I love being famous - it's phenomenal. Dave Chappelle
fame horrible being-famous
Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.
fame convenient being-famous
I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not. Catherine Deneuve
fame halls hall-of-fame
You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp. Casey Stengel
fame
Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek. Aidan Quinn
fame
I would like to be famous but unknown. Edgar Degas
fame
I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame. Elizabeth Kostova
fame hall high percent picks
When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage. Gil Brandt
fame mankind labor
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. Charles Sumner
proportion
There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.
proportion
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
proportion given form
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life. Alice James
proportion humour
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. Khalil Gibran
proportion realised
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. Mahatma Gandhi
proportion music-is whole
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. Orlando Gibbons
proportion wells traveller
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place. Henry Fielding
proportion free-time direct
Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time. Mike Dunlap
proportion reached traffic volume
The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.