"Envy does not allow humanity to sleep."
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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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"Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd"
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"Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious."
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"Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own."
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"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another - physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion."
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"Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us."
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"Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy."
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"Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer."
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"The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy."
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"O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles."
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"Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us."
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"How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?"
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"When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish."
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"We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides."
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"I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through."
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"If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival."
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"Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman."
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"Envy is the basis of democracy."
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"Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement."
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