- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Envy Quotes
Comparison, wearing a nobler mask.
This set is skeptical of righteous anger, with one line breaking so-called moral outrage down until envy turns out to be the biggest ingredient hiding inside Comparison itself.
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- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
- Oneself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Envy is an insult to oneself.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
- Jealousy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I envy the dead.
- Height
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
- Disparage
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- Nov 07, 2020