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All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to god, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither god, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

-William Law

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All The Wants Which Disturb Human Life,

William Law

All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to god, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither god, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

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Envy is the most universal passion. we only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. we envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. we envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. we envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

Envy, envy eats them alive. if you had money, they’d envy you that. but since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. they envy you for just being a happy man. they envy you for not envying them. one of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and the heart of the envious man. love wishes to give; envy would rather receive. love creates; envy destroys. love builds up; envy pulls down. love helps those in need, comforts the afflicted, and strives to turn all that is evil into good; envy would turn the little happiness to be found in this world into evil, sorrow, and pain.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. you disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. you trample upon things. when a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. when you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. when you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. when you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. and that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. so, it's a very vicious cycle.

If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. he is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. the contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

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