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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
generosity giving
Giving is true loving. Charles Spurgeon
generosity easy harder
It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time. Alan Bleasdale
generosity forgiving
Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving. David Rakoff
generosity bird bullets
To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets. William Shakespeare
generosity deeds taught
God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds. John Greenleaf Whittier
generosity people awakening
Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness. Bill Johnson
generosity trying spirit
Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit. Audrey Hepburn
generosity receiving helping
Ask for help. Receiving is an act of generosity. Cheryl Richardson
generosity creative way
The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved. Charlie Kaufman
reign virtue monk
[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.
reign ruins needs
The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan. Edward McKendree Bounds
reign becoming mediocrity
That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing. Charles Baudelaire
reign truth-is crime
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed? Blaise Pascal
reign shepherds ashes
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over! Elizabeth I
reign saws corny
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!? Bruce Sterling
reign blind
Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns Andrew Marvell
reign
Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead. Henry IV
reign fickle crowns
Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains. Alexander Pope