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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
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel. Charles Dickens
good-things rapture knows
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it. Bertolt Brecht
good-things shelves public-life
It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. Billy Collins
good-things born
It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards. Charles Spurgeon
good-things stupid-sports dumb-sports
Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic. Alex Rodriguez
good-things
I do good things in my life, too. It's just that none of them are funny. Doug Stanhope
good-things interest live-by
A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you. Crispin Glover
good-things knows deserve
I know that I do deserve good things. Amanda Beard
good-things
Being a celebrity at a very high level is a good thing. Donald Trump
destruction ifs destroyed
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. Carl Sagan
destruction transmutation
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation. Edwin Way Teale
destruction accepting interest
if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death. Arthur Conan Doyle
destruction havoc
Create havoc, create destruction. Dennis Rodman
destruction obsessive
I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction. Dave Navarro
destruction
We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction. Andrea Gibson
destruction ifs known
If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker. Albert Einstein
destruction
He, who can create, abhors destruction. Alphonse de Lamartine
destruction mutually-assured-destruction assured
Mutually assured destruction. Holly Black