John Donne Quotes, Death Quotes, Envy Quotes

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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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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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Envy Quotes

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

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The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Envy Quotes , Insult Quotes

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Jealousy Quotes , Envy Quotes

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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To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Envy Quotes , Feels Quotes

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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Tags : Horace Quotes , Envy Quotes , Silence Quotes

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

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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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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Envy Quotes , Overcoming Quotes

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Envy Quotes , Shade Quotes

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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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Courage Quotes , Envy Quotes

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Envy Quotes , Vices Quotes

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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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Envy Quotes , Sin Quotes

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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Envy-Thy art blindness

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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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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Men Quotes , Envy Quotes

Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Envy Quotes , Taoism Quotes