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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
scare doe driving
Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot... Alain Prost
scare firm believer
I'm a firm believer in doing things that scare you Catherine Bell
scare als flags
We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding. Kurt Vonnegut
scared
I am very scared to invest emotionally in a relationship. Deepika Padukone
scared originals
Be original; don't be scared of being bold! Ed Sheeran
scared tone voice
When he got angry, he would have a tone of voice that really scared me. Sarah Garuti
scare dying easy
Living is what scares me. Dying is easy. Charles Manson
scare tin needs
Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.' Ari Fleischer
scare lovable ends
I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me. Demi Moore
virtue
Patience is not a virtue! Alan Chadwick
virtue thrifty ifs
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not. William Shakespeare
virtue scapes calumny
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
virtue
There is a virtue in shamelessness. David Brooks
virtue crushed
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed. Baroness Orczy
virtue repetition
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ... Eliza Haywood
virtue
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. Bertolt Brecht
virtue used eternal-vigilance
The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible. Benjamin Netanyahu
virtue democratic candidates
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected. Bernard Meltzer