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

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We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

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The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

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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 a declaration of inferiority.

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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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Envy-Thy art blindness

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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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When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

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You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

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

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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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Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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

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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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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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