Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
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Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.
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Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
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I used to envy kids who had an old fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern type Grandpa myself and really start living.
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Here at lastWe shall be freethe Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us henceHere we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in HellBetter to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
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I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; But, like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
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Blessed is he who has learned To admire but not envy, To follow but not imitate, To praise but not flatter, And to lead but not manipulate.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise, For envy is a kind of praise.
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Pride, envy, avarice these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.
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Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.
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They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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The word?jealousy? Is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
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Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
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Do not envy a sinner you don't know what disaster awaits him.
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with usavarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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