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I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.
It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.
I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.
I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.
The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.
The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.
Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.
Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.
I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.
I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.
I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.
Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.
The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.
Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.