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envy causes misery
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it. Samuel Johnson
envy common incessant
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. Jonathan Swift
envy gossip criticism
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Mark Twain
envy insult accepted
The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them. Paulo Coelho
envy soul disorder
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to. Plutarch
envy human-nature humans
Envy is human nature. Monica Bellucci
envy tree goats
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be? John Donne
envy doe praise
Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved. John Calvin
envy imagine buyers
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. John Berger
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature london able
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. George Andrew Olah
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. James Russell Lowell
literature
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like Northrop Frye
literature classic produce
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
literature doe students
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.
literature study subjects
Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
literature now-and-then made
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. Norman Maclean
literature projects
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off. Norman Ralph Augustine
admiration admission convinced frank movement
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. Marie Louise
admiration great people
People who over-promise and under-deliver, I don't have great admiration for, ... People who under-promise and over-deliver, I admire. Paul Tagliabue
admiration gone highest places somebody studio york
The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story. Charlie Rose
admiration antagonist confess crimes dear forced horror last lost met months three
You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal. My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.
admiration effort great players
The effort the players have put in has been tremendous. I have great admiration for them for what they do week-in, week-out and year-in, year-out.
admiration appeared attached country devoted dutiful early english extremely faithful far few fond however ladies marriages states united wives
The ladies in the United States appeared to me to be extremely domestic. However fond they may be of admiration as girls, after their early marriages they become dutiful wives and affectionate, devoted mothers. And in a country where there are few faithful attached servants, far more devolves upon the mother than English ladies have any idea of. Isabella Bird
admiration winner no-sympathy
Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength. Terry Goodkind
admiration drawn folks found good hoped laugh natural page people product seemed sports talked
We've always hoped that Page 2 would be a destination for people who wanted a good laugh and didn't take sports too seriously. Much of that was accomplished through parody, so it seemed natural that we'd be drawn to a product like the Onion. I think we've always had an admiration for what they do, and when we talked to the folks at the Onion, we found out that admiration was mutual.
admiration infancy spoil
Admiration spoils all from infancy. Blaise Pascal