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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 person terrified with the imagination of spectres, is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. – Joseph Addison

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Ghosts
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. – Joseph Addison

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

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

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. – Aeschylus

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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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