Quote by William Shenstone
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our unea

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. – William Shenstone

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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. – William Shenstone

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Beauty
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Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it. – William Shenstone

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alone
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The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. – William Shenstone

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Poetry
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. – Luc de Clapiers

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Americans have discovered fear. – Jose Saramago

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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home. – Ben Stein

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Fear

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. – Roald Dahl

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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. – Albert Camus

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It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural. – Michael Behe

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Science

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. – Gregory Bateson

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The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order… between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace. – Arthur Henderson

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