All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if ….
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from….
There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or any of these, but because everyth….
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding..
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living..
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair..
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding th….
the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies ….
There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia..
Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese." "My lovely Stil….
Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides..
Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far….
What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at..
Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given..
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of..
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?.
When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit..
Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion o….
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimate….
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate..
The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they….