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“An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.”

People Sacrifice Conscience Neighbor Good People Bad People

Book:The Descendant

Source: The Descendant

“A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.”

Stills Brother Flow Endure Lips Neighbor Doctrine Bread Dry Endurance Affliction Jam Resigned Insensitivity

Book:The Descendant

Source: The Descendant

“A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.”

Men Believe Doe Light Spirit Grows Understanding Dark Opinion Written Lows Angry Neighbor Tempted Disdain Incline Dogmatism Sunbeams

Book:The Improvement of the Mind

Source: The Improvement of the Mind

“In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.”

Men Matter Justice Taught Neighbor Equity Saviour Taught Us

Author:Isaac Watts

“We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God.”

Ifs Knows Believe Wells May Reason Certain Greater Love You Neighbor Loving God

Author:Teresa of Avila

“the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.”

Sides Kindness Revolution Treats Fundamentals Oneself Neighbor Surprising Both Sides Maxims Surprising Things

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.”

Steps Extremes Neighbor

Book:The Hunchback: A Play in Five Acts. With the Author's Latest Corrections

Source: The Hunchback: A Play in Five Acts. With the Author's Latest Corrections

“Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.”

Art Neighbor Good Neighbor

Author:Gladys Taber

“Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!”

Young Chance Education Teach Successful Depends Neighbor Being Successful

Book:A Romance of Two Worlds

Source: A Romance of Two Worlds

“They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.”

Knows Men Humans May Matter Religion Causes Trouble Human Nature Findings Neighbor Doctrine Heresy Pulpit

Author:Galileo Galilei

“It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.”

Ifs Wisdom Law Differences Wealth Numbers Class Principles Ought Activity Mass Sacred Property Population Extremes Neighbor Favors Productive Multitudes Private Property

Author:Pope Leo XIII

“You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.”

Knows Rich Neighbor Smarter Get Rich

Author:Warren Buffett

“Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.”

Men Giving Stills Force Honest Honesty Dues Neighbor Pursue Honest Man Wrenches

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.”

Wealth Conscience Neighbor

Author:Philip Massinger

“Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.”

Needs Cities Compassion Practice Kindness Virtue Modern Offers Towns Neighbor Urban Anonymity Unlearn Unfriendly Gregariousness

Book:The province of the heart

Source: The province of the heart

“By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.”

Kind Feelings Gone Virtue Method Faults Seeds Neighbor Mysterious Spokes Gossip Listeners

Author:Margaret Deland

“What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.”

Knows May Virtue Mines Stones Vices Neighbor Contemplation Diamond Crude Uncompromising Precious Stones

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.”

Two America Opportunity Nations Poor Race Poverty Rich Car Crisis Neighbor Rings Divided Alarms Rich And Poor Two Nations

Author:Arianna Huffington

“What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.”

Doe Important Character Government Asks Nations Easy Community Common Subjects Building Needed Citizens Comfort Responsible Neighbor Reform Spectators Common Good Building Community

Author:George W. Bush

“What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.”

Knows May Doe Real Lasts Faces Black Voice Secret Laughing Heard Share Drink Messages Charity Stranger Neighbor Cease Dawn Real Love Spares Committees Comforting Face To Face One Friend Black Day

Book:Living Alone

Source: Living Alone

“We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.”

People Knows Whole Action Chance Honest Depends Regard Fortune Neighbor Whole Life Esteem Reputation Merit Acquire Harvest Good Fortune Usefulness Proximity

Author:George Augustus Henry Sala

“In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.”

“War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!”

Ifs Men Children Doe War Spirit Evil House Left Nations Pay Break Forever Trouble Prove Ethics Blow Driven Neighbor Furniture Heirs Captives Successors Bloodletting

Book:In Times Like These

Source: In Times Like These

“A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who spend everything they get. This is probably the oldest financial advice in the world, but there are some things you can't improve on.”

World Giving Money Advice Program Investment Financial Conservative Neighbor Saving More Money Better Life Savings Financial Advice

Book:Everyone's money book

Source: Everyone's money book

“Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.”

Art Forgiveness Neighbor Confused Hanging Out Bitterness Down The Road Laundry Clotheslines

Book:Self-help

Source: Self-help

“So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.”

Firsts Marriage Heard Neighbor Unhappy Episodes Spoiled Shouting Happy Marriage Unhappy Marriage

Author:Lillian Russell

“To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.”

Neighbor Schadenfreude Unpleasant Experiences

Book:A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

Source: A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

“It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.”

Ifs Men Dangerous Skins Paid Neighbor Saved Heels Superiority Dangerous Things

Author:Christoph Martin Wieland

“The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.”

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.”

Ifs Want Nations Peace Neighbor Diplomacy

Author:Howard W. Koch

“Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.”

“I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.”

Ifs Fall My Own Affair Profit Neighbor Busybodies

Book:Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman

Source: Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman

“For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.”

Two Sweet Stranger Noble Neighbor Sour

Author:Hadewijch

“It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor.”

Knows Way Prayer Our Lives Effects Treats Neighbor Live By Our Prayers

Author:Sheila Cassidy

“When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.”

Helping Community Neighbor Our Community

Author:Jennifer Pahlka

“Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.”

Should Novel Safe Smart Breaths Neighbor Ambitious

Author:Richard Russo

“Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. . . . Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.”

World Way Doe Reading Can Do Moral Novel Safe Achievement Neighbor Complexity Magnificent

Author:Ron Rash

“Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.”

Powerful Novel Safe Neighbor Finest Storyteller Masterpiece

Author:Jill McCorkle

“Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless.”

Feels Past Novel Grace Wise Safe Depth Neighbor Novelists Shock Unusual Richness Mississippi Past And Present Effortless

Author:Tom Perrotta

“A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.”

World Home Next Doors Neighbor Stable Home Life

Author:Rachel Cusk

“Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.”

Thinking Knows Men Home Young Mother Neighbor Familiar Cooks Young Man

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors.”

Ifs May Mystery Streets Tomorrow India Busy Crowds Neighbor Meat Serving Tourists Like Something Transient Poisoning Wholesome Food

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.”

Knows May Whole Joy Sorrow Towns Neighbor Cake Layers Small Town Filling Lemons

Author:Laura E. Richards

“Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?”

Thinking Courses Sides Neighbor Grass Fence Greener Grass Is Greener Greener On The Other Side Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

Author:Teresa Bloomingdale

“Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.”

Desire Wife Neighbor Vain

Author:Julian Tuwim

“My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.”

Persons Sometimes Mother Father Parent Church Neighbor Ministers Gentleman Terrific

Author:Jane Pauley

“Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors.”

Neighbor Embarrassment

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Do not think you need necessarily have as fine swords and clothing as your neighbor. As long as they are not disreputable, they will do. And if you borrow and so lose your independence, you will be despised.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Long Loses Fine Independence Neighbor Materialism Clothings Despised

Author:Hojo Soun

“I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is to call upon the best of America. It's part of the renewal. It's reform and renewal. Part of the renewal is a set of high standards and to remind people that the greatness of America really does depend on neighbors helping neighbors and children finding mentors. I worry. I'm very worried about, you know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant for him. I really worry about that.”