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envy

«Love is patient; love is kindand envies no one.Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;never selfish, not quick to take offense.There is nothing love cannot face;there is no limit to its faith,its hope, and endurance.In a word, there are three thingsthat last forever: faith, hope, and love;but the greatest of them all is love.»
«Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.»
Author: Heraclitus of Ephesus | Keywords: envy, lasts
«Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.»
«Our envy of others devours us most of all»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Keywords: devours, envy
«Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.»
Author: Danish Proverb | Keywords: consumes, envy, iron, rust, rusted, rusts
«Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.»
«OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
«The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.»
Author: Jim Rohn (Author, Speaker) | Keywords: envy, envying, few, many, watch
«Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music»
«There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.»