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envy wish way
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way. Agnes Repplier
envy purpose good-work
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
envy design lucky
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
envy praise envious
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.
envy reason instinct
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
envy victory spy
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
envy mediocre
Envy is the religion of the mediocre Carlos Ruiz Zafon
envy virtue envious
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own. Charlotte Lennox
envy people may
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness. Bertrand Russell
mediocre deterrent
the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre Elizabeth Hardwick
mediocre overall report tone
The overall tone of the report is pretty mediocre at this point. Carolyn Kwan
mediocre
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. Cyril Connolly
mediocre
La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre. Alfred Jarry
mediocre prospects regain sector services struggle
Prospects for services are mediocre and the sector will struggle to regain dynamism. David Frost
mediocre
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. Ivan Turgenev
mediocre
To be popular I must be mediocre. Oscar Wilde
mediocre screenplays
My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there. Michael Arndt
mediocre
They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.