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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 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 mind may
They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young. Arthur C. Clarke
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
mediocrity genius birth
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities Cesare Lombroso
mediocrity culture defeat
The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily, Eddie McGuire
mediocrity century bureaucracy
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee. Benedict Cumberbatch
mediocrity useless vapid
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue. Anton Chekhov
mediocrity application superiority
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. Baltasar Gracian
mediocrity lines architecture
in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it. Ayn Rand
mediocrity possession native
Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions. Blaise Pascal
mediocrity
We encourage one another in mediocrity. Charles Lamb
mediocrity levels settling
For what level of mediocrity will you settle? Brandon Lee
pity comment misfortunes
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
pity-love words-of-wisdom thank-god
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! Charles Dickens
pity figures should
It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head. Charles Spurgeon
pity instinct just-listen
Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity. Chris Bosh
pity laugh-at-yourself whining
Never take yourself too seriously. Ariana Grande
pity poor relation
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. Arthur Helps
pity disgusting
Pity is always twinged with disgust. Daniel Quinn
pity speaking writers
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Arundhati Roy
pity public taken
Unfortunately this has come after a lot of public pressure. It's a pity it's taken too long to happen. Maina Kiai