"Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape."
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"School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity."
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"You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy!"
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"Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow."
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"Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?"
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"The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy."
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"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that."
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"It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause."
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"The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy."
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"Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy."
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"Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego."
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"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
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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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"The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God."
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"Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got"
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""There aint nothin gonna stop me so just envy it""
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"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on."
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"Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening."
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"Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other."
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"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
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