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“When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
And I must minister the like to you.”
Medicine Quotes Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at II, iv)
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“O, he's a limb that has but a disease:
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.”
Disease Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Menenius at III, i)
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“Diseases desperate grown
By desparate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.”
Disease Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, iii)
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“This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please
your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson
tingling.”
Disease Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Falstaff at I, ii)
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“I'll forbear;
And am fallen out with my more headier will
To take the indisposed and sickly fit
For the sound man.”
Disease Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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“Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave,
On their departure most of all show evil.”
Disease Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pandulph at III, iv)
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“May be he is not well.
Infirmity doth neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound.”
Health Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to
trouble about whether he's happy or not.”
Health Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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“I bought an unction of a mountebank,
So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,
Collected from all simples that have virtue
Under the moon, can save the thing from death
That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point
With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
It may be death.”
Quackery Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Laertes at IV, vii)
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“He had a fever when he was in Spain,
And when the fit was on him, I did mark
How he did shake. 'Tis true, this god did shake.
His coward lips did from their color fly,
And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world
Did lose his luster.”
Sickness Quotes Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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“Is Brutus sick, and is it physical
To walk unbraced and suck up the humors
Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,
And will he steal out of his wholesome bed
To dare the vile contagion of the night,
And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air,
To add unto his sickness?”
Sickness Quotes Source: Julius Caesar (Portia at II, i)
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“Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect
The very lifeblood of our enterprise.”
Sickness Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at IV, i)
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“My long sickness
Of health and living now begins to mend,
And nothing brings me all things.”
Sickness Quotes Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at V, i)
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“The wound of peace is surety,
Surety secure; but modest doubt is called
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To th' bottom of the worst.”
Wounds Quotes Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Hector at II, ii)
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“I tell you that which you yourselves do know,
Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,
And bid them speak for me.”
Wounds Quotes Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
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“Safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head,
The least a death to nature.”
Wounds Quotes Source: Macbeth (First Murderer at III, iv)
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“What wound did ever heal but my degrees?”
Wounds Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
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“How he in peace is wounded, not in war.”
Wounds Quotes Source: The Rape of Lucrece (l. 831)
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“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
Wounds Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at II, ii)
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“The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst,
'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!”
Wounds Quotes Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at V, iv)
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“Fie, fie upon her!
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;
Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body.”
Language Quotes Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at IV, v)
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“Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!”
Language Quotes Source: King Lear (Kent at II, ii)
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“He has strangled
His language in his tears.”
Language Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (King Henry at V, i)
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“You taught me language, and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!”
Language Quotes Source: The Tempest (Caliban at I, ii)
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“There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.”
Language Quotes Source: The Winter's Tale (First Gentleman at V, ii)
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