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envied

«How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.»
Author: Herodotus | Keywords: envied, pitied
«And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: / For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: envied, herds, waxed
«And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: envied, Rachel
«I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Eden, envied, Garden of
«Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: envied, travail
«And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? / And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.»
«The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.»
«He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | Keywords: envied
«Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied»
«That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: envied, warmer

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