Agnes Repplier Quotes, Envy Quotes, Purpose Quotes

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

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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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We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

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There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

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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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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

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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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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

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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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This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!

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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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