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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
ceases man simply
What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine. Ashwin Sanghi
cease fears pen
When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain. John Keats
ceases hand heart pray
When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray Irish Sayings
ceases limit
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. Edmund Burke
cease people point simply
The point simply is to accommodate people, to get them where they need to be before we cease the operation.
cease develop learning passion
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
cease hope life seems
It seems as if life and hope must cease together. Anne Bronte
cease course dead learning people time
Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning. Meles Zenawi
cease
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. Shirley MacLaine