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• We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

  Sally Stanford

  Poverty, Poor, Heard

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• The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Reality, Thinking, Ignorant

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• The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his success, and the obstinate sinners, who were offended by his reproofs. When Chrysostom thundered from the pulpit of St. Sophia against the degeneracy of the Christians, his shafts were spent among the crowd, without wounding or even marking the character of any individual.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Character, Past

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.502

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• Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

  Samuel Richardson

  Happiness, Blessing, Years

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• To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

  Pindar

  Fate

  Pindar, Anacreon, Sappho, Musaeus (Grammaticus.) (1822). “The Odes of Pindar”, p.138

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• If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!].

  Pietro Metastasio

  Grief, Would Be, Inward

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• Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

  Alexander Pope

  Envy, Brave, Mind

  Alexander Pope (1804). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.71

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• With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

  Charles Churchill

  Envy, Pale, Turns

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.6

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• The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in fact becomes saving. And so for that reason, Judas emerges as the champion and he ends up being envied and even cursed and resented by the other disciples.

  Craig A. Evans

  Jesus, Betrayal, Sacrifice

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• Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

  Criss Jami

  Envy, Insecurity, Longing

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.33, Criss Jami

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• I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

  William Wycherley

  Wife, Dull, Eating Alone

  1675 The Country Wife, act 3, sc.2.

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• Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

  William James

  Failure, Men, Secret

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.129, Library of America

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• On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.

  Tobias Smollett

  Rocks, White, Bed

  Tobias Smollett (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Tobias Smollett (Illustrated)”, p.2159, Delphi Classics

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• Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

  Conrad Black

  Biblical, Wealthy, Has Beens

  "'At Some Level, He's Still Asking the Same Question as He Was When He Was Seven or Eight - Who Am I?'". www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.

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• Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed.

  Alfie Kohn

  Country, Thinking, Self

  Alfie Kohn (2008). “The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life”, p.3, Basic Books

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• I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Fame, Curse

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature". Interview with Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

  Baltasar Gracian

  Gratitude, Grateful, Focus

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• Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Fire, Circles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.151

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• The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

  Chanakya

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Men

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• Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go.

  Thomas Sowell

  Rights, Water, Arbitrary

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• Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow & develop
  as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied; if we fail, we are
  ridiculed & attacked. Sadly, this is how people are. Unexpected
  grief & suffering may lie ahead of you. But it is precisely when you
  encounter such trying times that you must not be defeated. NEVER GIVE
  UP! NEVER RETREAT!

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Lying, Grief

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• It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

  Kenneth Williams

  Writing, Hypnosis, Coward

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed to sleep for twenty hours a day. But I envied them too. It was the kind of lifestyle I could relate to.We didn't sleep for twenty hours, but we gave it our best shot.

  John Marsden

  Dog, Teenager, Sleep

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he knew; he would have swapped souls with it in a heartbeat. And then to take wing, to know the air's buoyancy even for an hour: the trad was a no-brainer, and the catbird, with its lively indifference to him, its sureness of physical selfhood, seemed well aware of how preferable it was to be the bird.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Azaleas, Knowing Nothing, Air

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• I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

  Adolph Rupp

  Leadership, Sports, Differences

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