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envy design lucky
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be. Charles Caleb Colton
envy praise envious
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
envy reason instinct
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
envy victory spy
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
envy violence wealth
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. Edward Gibbon
envy people may
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness. Bertrand Russell
envy wish way
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way. Agnes Repplier
envy purpose good-work
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.
envy virtue envious
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own. Charlotte Lennox
want herds
I don't want to follow the herd. Alain Robert
want way connections
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways. Akhenaton
want directors ifs
If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter. Akira Kurosawa
want kind plans
Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want, Akio Morita
want needs nevertheless
God doesn't need anything nevertheless He wants worshipers. Aiden Wilson Tozer
want presence-of-god
I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.
want sovereign want-u
The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honoured for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest.
want christ should
Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.
want indispensable
I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.
might impossible wells
I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it. Barnett Newman
might likes given
It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight. Audrey Tautou
might stranger
They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew. Deb Caletti
might
I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think. Lorraine Toussaint
might shape
The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none. John Milton
might opposed people point
The point is, people are getting the most antioxidants from beverages, as opposed to what you might think, Joe Vinson
might
We still thought we might be able to do it.
might suspects universe
One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand. Kurt Vonnegut
might bed very-good
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good. Bill Nighy