Quotes About Comparison

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tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk or a curate, while much less expense by way of show was required of him

Some people say that their school days were the happiest of their lives. They may be right, but I always look with suspicion upon those whom I hear saying this. It is hard enough to know whether one is happy or unhappy now, and still harder to compare the relative happiness or unhappiness of different times of one's life; the utmost that can be said is that we are fairly happy so long as we are not distinctly aware of being miserable. As

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Sir, your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

There is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's than in all Tom Jones.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

It is absurd to assume that the new political societies emerging in the East will be copies of the societies we know in the West.

she costing me but little compared with other wives, and I have not many occasions to spend on her.

What the deuse do we men go to school for? If our wits were equal to women's, we might spare much time and pains in our education: for nature teaches your sex, what, in a long course of labour and study, ours can hardly attain to.

How soon will some few years pass away, and then when the day is ended, and this life's lease expired, what have men of the world's glory, but dreams and thoughts? O happy soul for evermore, who can rightly compare this life with that long-lasting life to come, and can balance the weighty glory of the one with the light golden vanity of the other.

The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light of the glow-worm, which gives no heat, and illumines nothing but itself

Your personality may be comparing your new potential reality to the one you are living and find something lacking.

Automobile E-Commerce In 2022 Is No Different Than India E-Tailing In 2012.

It never ceases to amaze me how many women struggle with self-belief while the vast majority of men have no trouble with it at all.

Being the underachiever in a family of overachievers was hell.

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

We all have very different and unique legacies, we all cannot be eagles, some of us were meant to be ants.