Khalil Gibran Quotes, Hate Quotes, Envy Quotes

Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

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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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Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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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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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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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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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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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

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envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting 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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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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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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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

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