Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...
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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
I'll forbear;
And am fallen out with my more headier will
To take the indisposed and sickly read more
I'll forbear;
And am fallen out with my more headier will
To take the indisposed and sickly fit
For the sound man.
Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow,
The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!
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Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow,
The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!
Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow
He would be coy, and would not love at all;
Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought,
Than love united to a jealous thought.
Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
[Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]
Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
[Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves,
the fruit, or the flower.
[It., D'ogni read more
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves,
the fruit, or the flower.
[It., D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto
Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde
Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.]
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
[Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
[Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
