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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
vampire way metaphor
Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that. Alan Ball
vampire freak series
Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever. Darren Shan
vampire swedish vampire-movie
Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie. David Sedaris
vampire back-when needs
You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how. Catherine Deneuve
vampire feminism female
Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality. Camille Paglia
vampire may witch
English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are. Deborah Harkness
vampire stories likes
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true. Bill Nighy
vampire clubs bondage
It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club Charlaine Harris
vampire lasts exit
As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.
emulation fever envious
An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation. William Shakespeare
emulation genius conscious
Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius. Janine Benyus
emulation run
Emulation is slower, sometimes much slower, than applications that run natively. Joe Wilcox
emulation charity spontaneous
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation. Hosea Ballou
emulation students praise
Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students. Horace Mann
emulation reader moved
A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation. William Maxwell