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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. – Joseph Addison

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

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Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself. – Danish proverb

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. – Aeschylus

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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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