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Quotes about envy
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. (Fielding Henry)
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. (Fielding Henry)
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. (Fielding Henry)
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. (Fielding Henry)
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. (Fielding Henry)
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. (Fielding Henry)
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. (Fielding Henry)
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. (Fielding Henry)
Nothing sharpens sight like envy. (Fielding Henry)
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. (Fielding Henry)
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. (Fielding Henry)
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. (Fielding Henry)
Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves. (Fielding Henry)
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. (Fielding Henry)
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. (Fielding Henry)
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. (Fielding Henry)
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living. (Fielding Henry)
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises. (Fielding Henry)
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. (Fielding Henry)
It is not enough to succeed, others must fail. (Fielding Henry)
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. (Fielding Henry)
There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man. (Fielding Henry)
Envy is honors foe. (Fielding Henry)
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him. (Fielding Henry)
Envy aims very high. (Fielding Henry)
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