Virginia Woolf Quotes, Men Quotes, Envy Quotes

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

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Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

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The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

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This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!

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At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

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There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

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Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

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