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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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
affection painful unrequited
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences. Damon Galgut
affection bring chain lapse left link objects seems tempted
When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered. Marguerite Gardiner
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When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness. John Audubon
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We're going to hug him and kiss him. We're going to show him his way to the basket. He's a terrific guy. We love him. Eddie Jordan
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Usually, a candidate has to nail down the base and move to the centre after the nomination, ... She has the flexibility because she has so much affection from the base. Marshall Wittmann
affection truth
When affection only speaks, truth is not always there Thomas Middleton
affection range tremendous wide
I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people. Ken Starr
affection american-celebrity good respect return
We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. Lillian Gordy Carter
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life. E. F. Benson
has-beens ifs know-how
We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place. Aiden Wilson Tozer
has-beens
Everything about my politics has been about the future David Miliband
has-beens
Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been. Kurt Vonnegut
has-beens
Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do. Ben Vereen
has-beens denied
Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free Aung San Suu Kyi
has-beens
What has been is no more. Change has come. Dean Koontz
has-beens happened could-have-been
What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me. Ashleigh Brilliant
has-beens
Any more would have been less. Artie Shaw
has-beens
Everything has been something before. Alexander McCall Smith