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If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down. - Lord Clarendon, Edward Hyde Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi Nulla potest placare quies.] - Claudian (Claudianus), De Raptu Proserpinoe (III, 290) It is because we have but a small portion of enjoyment ourselves that we feel so little pleasure in the good fortune of others. Is it possible for the happy to be envious? - William Benton Clulow Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. - Harold Coffin Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature. - Jeremy Collier Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation. - Jeremy Collier Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances. - Jeremy Collier Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. - Jeremy Collier As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance. - Charles Caleb Colton Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat. - Charles Caleb Colton Envy ought in strict truth to have no place whatever allowed it in the heart of man; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it, and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it. - Charles Caleb Colton Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. - Charles Caleb Colton The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us. - Charles Caleb Colton The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure. - Charles Caleb Colton To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be. - Charles Caleb Colton The hen of our neighbor appears to us a goose, says the Oriental proverb. - Dorothee DeLuzy There is a time in every man's education when be arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate. - Epictetus Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far more honor than the seeking slyly to disparage it. That would show we loved what we commended, while this tells the world we grudge at what we want in ourselves. - Owen Felltham (Feltham) Envy is a kind of praise. - John Gay To all apparent beauties blind, Each blemish strikes an envious mind. - John Gay Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. - John Gay, Fables-The Elephant and the Bookseller (pt. I, fable 10, l. 74) Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. - John Gay, The Hound and the Huntsman But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage A woman's envy? - George Granville, Lord Landsdowne, Progress of Beauty Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate. - Sir Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Lord Brooke Displaying page 2 of 6 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6
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