“ To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed — That can make life a garden. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera, E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.]. ”
- Jacopo Sannazaro- Copy
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“ I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing. ”
- Buddy Hackett- Copy
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“ In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
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“ Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
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“ Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt. ”
- Rollo May- Copy
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“ With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
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“ Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do. ”
- Wendell Berry- Copy
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“ There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
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“ Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. ”
- Mary Schmich- Copy
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“ The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. ”
- Christopher Marlowe- Copy
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“ Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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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. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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