William Shakespeare Quotes About Envy
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No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.
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This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!
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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
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Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
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Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.
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I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
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We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.
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And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
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