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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
reassurance harley gentle
I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson. Colin Firth
reassurance weak greater
What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? Eric Hoffer
illusion
Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us. Alan Watts
illusion should ends
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming. Aprilynne Pike
illusion fame given
Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well. Ashley Olsen
illusion lover shakespeare theatre
Shakespeare was such a lover of theatre, and theatre is an illusion. Dean Gilmour
illusion
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. Sydney Smith
illusion thousand ten
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths. Alexander Pushkin
illusion
Time is an illusion. Albert Einstein
illusion maybe people understand
Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.
illusions rich
I don't have any illusions that I'll become rich off this project.