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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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.
O jealousy,
Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom
Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful read more
O jealousy,
Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom
Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue
Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness,
And drinks my spirit up!
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.]
So full of artless jealousy is guilt
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long read more
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run.
A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.
A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.
That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.
That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.
If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.
It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.
