A Quote by Henry Fuseli
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.
You are a vampire. That's big news in my world. I don't generally date the living dead. What sort of dead do you usually date?
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
The living will envy the dead.
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.
Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death.
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.
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