Envy eats nothing, but its own heart.


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Envy eats nothing but its own heart
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Power eats its host alive.
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Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.
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Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
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The heart is its own Fate.
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Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
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Nothing sharpens sight like envy
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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HONORE DE BALZAC
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ENGLISH PROVERB
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ENGLISH PROVERB
The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, / That never mused on sorrow but its own.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.
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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
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Your heart has its own geography, where it prefers to be.
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Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.
ROBERT LEMBKE
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.
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A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.
VANNA BONTA
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life (Proverbs 4:23).
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My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.
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It is another piece of information that on its own means nothing.
DR. GAL IFERGAN
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW WILSON
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A miser is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles all its life.
VIKRANT PARSAI
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BIBLE
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LUDWIG FEUERBACH
Envy is like a two-headed serpent: it kills the enemy of its master, and its master.
JOHN B. BEJO
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. AUDEN
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W. H. AUDEN
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, 'I've done nothing wrong
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Than being in love, I'm more inspired to write poems and quotes when pain eats my heart- sad truth.
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JEREMY TAYLOR
If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?
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Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
ABRAHAM CAHAN
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A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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