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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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance. – Joseph Addison

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

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Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. – Francis Bacon

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