Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
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Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat
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Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
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Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
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Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.
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Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.
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Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
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The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
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Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
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No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health
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Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the