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

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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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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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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

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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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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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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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And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

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

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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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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

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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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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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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

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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 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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