James Cook born 1728.
Nicolo Paganini born 1782.
Theodore Roosevelt, New York, twenty-fifth President
United States, born 1858.
The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is
always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which
will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the
man who feels it.
--Theodore Roosevelt.
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest
service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the
success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.
--C.C. Colton.
Dear to me is the friend, yet I can also make use of an enemy. The
friend shows me what I can do, the foe teaches me what I should.
--Schiller.
Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another.
--Galatians 5. 26.
Almighty God, I would ask thee that my days be filled with aspiration,
and that my heart may know no envy. Help me to love humanity. May I be
so glad of the success of others that I may never know what it is to
be envious. Amen.