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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
causes funny-women arguing
I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause. Dave Barry
causes journalism profession
Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession. David Talbot
causes decline earnings estimates future lowering revenue slight
We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95. Kevin McCarthy
causes greatest law strictly wrong
Where the law is most strictly administered, it sometimes causes the greatest wrong Legal Maxim
causes definitely emotional face head muscles start
When you start to see the emotional muscles contracting, you know there's some attraction. The muscles of the face are definitely emotional. The upper trapezius muscle is emotional, which causes you to flex your head and your shoulders.
causes doe made
Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it. Aiden Wilson Tozer
causes enough standards
I masturbate 'cause I'm the only one whose standards are low enough to f-k me. Bo Burnham
causes ems ugly
Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly. Billy Gibbons
causes originals universe
Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God. David Hume
misery memoir written
I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained. Caitlin Moran
misery miserable
Misery is wasted on the miserable. Louis C. K.
misery miserable-people miserable
We can never flee the misery that is within us. Arthur Golden
misery distraction console
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. Blaise Pascal
misery ends mischief
There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
misery
You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented. Brooke Shields
misery
Put yourself out of your misery. Annie Dillard
misery resentment vengeance
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come. Dalai Lama
misery extremes invites
extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery. Dodie Smith