Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Envy Quotes, Emulation Quotes

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

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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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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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There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

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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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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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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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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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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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The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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

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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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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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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

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

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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

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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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