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Tag Name "Envy" (644)

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Envy's a sharper spur than pay.
John Gay
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Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.
John Wilmot
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Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes but so is longing to be envied.
Criss Jami
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
Democritus
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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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
Bertrand Russell
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Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
William Hazlitt
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Envy is littleness of soul.
William Hazlitt
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Envy is a surefire party killer.
Bob Colacello
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Envy suggests inferiority.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Envy is the religion of the mediocre
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
Livy
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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
Ambrose Bierce
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
Alain de Botton
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Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
Angus Wilson
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Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.
Mason Cooley
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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
Matthieu Ricard
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
Alexander Pope
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
Alexander Pope
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envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
Ada Leverson
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envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.
Margaret of Valois
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
Frederick Buechner
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