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  ...the age of pride, and days of will, and impatiency, when men live but by intervals of reason, under the sovereignty of humour and passion, when it is in the power of every one to trans- form thee out of thyself, and put thee into short mad- ness.* If you cannot imitate Job, yet come not short of Socrates,<18> and those patient Pagans, who tired the
* Irae furor brevis est.
tongues of their enemies, while they perceived they spit their malice at brazen walls and statues. Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.   be content to be envied, but envy not. Emulation may be plausible, and indignation allowable, but admit no treaty with that passion which no circumstance can make good. A displacency at the good of others, because they enjoy it although we do not want it, is an absurd depravity sticking fast unto nature, from its primitive corruption, which he that can well subdue were a Christian of the first magnitude, and for ought I know may have one foot already in heaven.
While thou so hotly...   Browne, Sir Thomas

Excerpt from Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend · This quote is tagged Envy · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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