Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Summer Quotes, Envy Quotes

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

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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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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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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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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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Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

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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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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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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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The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

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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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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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