Joseph Hall Quotes About Envy

Quotes about: Envy

• Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

  Joseph Hall

  Long, Envy, Care

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.296

• Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.

  Joseph Hall

  Ambition, Humility, Pride

• We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Envy, Joy

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