Quote by Joseph Addison
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it t

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. – Joseph Addison

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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. – Joseph Addison

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I never admire anothers fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. – Aeschylus

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Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved – Mason Cooley

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