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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
easy monopoly legislation
I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature. Alan Greenspan
easy crosses lays
Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another Aiden Wilson Tozer
easy easy-things
Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
easy it-takes-time take-time
Change isn't easy, it takes time. Caroline Kennedy
easy hard
Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo. Catherine Ryan Hyde
easy fight leaving problem ready union work
The percentages are low, no question, ... The work is leaving the workers. This outsourcing is a problem for union and non-union workers. Labor's never had it easy but we're ready to fight for workers' rights. Jack Shea
easy faces game half knew second stay stops tough
We started the game with stops and conversions, and we started the second half with stops and conversions. ? We knew we had to make it tough for them to score. We had to stay in their faces all night. No easy baskets. Louis Orr
easy struggled
We struggled through it, and nothing ever comes easy for us. Frank Robinson
easy embark feeling feels felt harder keeps knew might since time toes whenever
The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated. Lee Byung-hun
clergymen greater provincial regard work
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty. John Strachan
clergymen preacher defects
The defects of a preacher are soon spied. Martin Luther
clergymen expenses feels
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live. Voltaire
clergymen compassionate virtuous
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. Samuel Richardson