Ada Leverson Quotes, Envy Quotes, Merit Quotes

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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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

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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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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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If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

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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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Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

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

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

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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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And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

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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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