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Envy Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
- Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
- All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by…
- Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did…
- A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
- His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
- Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life…
- Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared…
- Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
- All envy is proportionate to desire.
- There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work…
- Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
- A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or…
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
More Envy Quotes
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and… — Ronald Reagan
- Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? — Yevgeny Zamyatin
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given… — Sholom Aleichem
- The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong,… — Hannah Arendt
- If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me? — Chad Anderson
- Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the… — Ephrem the Syrian