"Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual."
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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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"Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away."
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"The eyes envy the mind."
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"The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy."
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"It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well."
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"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."
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"In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy."
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"Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred."
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"Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue."
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"Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving."
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"There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron."
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"It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy."
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"I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity."
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"Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others"
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"The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to."
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"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."
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"Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about."
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"I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life."
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"Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away."
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