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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
competition way said
Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated. Chris Colfer
competition loser winner
Global competition is about winners and losers. David Korten
competition experience ought particular people players time
During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus. Michel Patini
competition concerns rising
There are concerns about rising competition and there is still more to come. Kevin Roe
competition fighting fights-and-fighting win won
We?re in it to win it, but we?d be out there fighting the same way if we had never won anything. We don?t see it as pressure. We see it as competition, and competition is fun.
competition due greatest slow
We started off slow also due to us not having the greatest competition come at us.
competition olympics
I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me. Blanka Vlasic
competition age competence
I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on. Billy Joel
competition tradition
The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances. Eddie Murphy
imitation repetition observation
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition. Denis Waitley
imitation equal predecessors
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. Baltasar Gracian
imitation acquire
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. Edmund Burke
imitation wit poorest
Borrowed wit is the poorest wit. Johann Kaspar Lavater
imitation rudeness strength weak
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength Eric Hoffer
imitation absurdity copies
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
imitation envious
I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation. Jeaniene Frost
imitation conviction
Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others. Ernst Moritz Arndt
imitation raised contrast
By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated. Joshua Reynolds