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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 violence wealth
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. Edward Gibbon
envy secret excellence
it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it. Elizabeth Montagu
envy long together
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails. Edmund Waller
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
They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.
mediocre
He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me. LL Cool J
mediocre-life mediocre satisfied
Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Pope Francis
mediocre
To be popular I must be mediocre. Oscar Wilde