![the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-most-comfortable-characteristic-of-the-period-1775-1825-and-the-one-which.jpg)
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Quiet and incredible. I really envy that. Sarah Dessen
envy hopeful
Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned Roger Waters
envy bliss fractions
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? Yevgeny Zamyatin
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 balls moral
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. Martin Amis
envy praise
Envy bestrides praise. Pindar
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
purpose talks
The purpose of these talks is to get started, Richard Boucher
purpose system technology
The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit. Tim Wulfemeyer
purpose win
I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.
purpose purpose-of-life
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history. Richard Dawkins
purpose danger
The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control. William S. Burroughs
purpose may pages
The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose. William Matthews
purpose wells militia
There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia. Sarah Brady
purpose schedules kind
I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose. Sara Gilbert
purpose horror imagine
The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand. Richard Flanagan
good-work
We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can. Christine Lagarde