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

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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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Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

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A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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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 feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

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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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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

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No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

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

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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

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There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

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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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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

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