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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.
There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.
There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
I'm emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy People kill for me or die to defend me
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
Frontrunners always attract envy, and a desperate campaign to stop them in their tracks.
In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
People always ask me: How are you? I say I'm the envy of millions. I've been a lucky guy.
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.
Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.
Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!
Capitalism is the system that has enabled greatness and made America the envy of the world.
The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.
Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy!
As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.
Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
I envy Jonghyun's technique and energy, Onew's voice, Key's rapping skills and Minho's looks.
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.