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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their
objects than love.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their
objects than love.
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For read more
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
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!
If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake, I read more
If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake, I tell you
'Tis rigor and not law.
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
