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The remedy is worse than the disease.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Of Seditions
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[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry
them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as
so many anatomies.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sc. 2, memb. 3, subsect. 10)
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Apoplexic, and Lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
Author: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (pt. III, The Furies), second week, first day
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Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made
manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical
sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental
inharmony.
Author: Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy
Source: Science and Health (ch. XIV, 20)
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That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Double Transformation (l. 75)
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within
itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the
spiritual part.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: The Scarlet Letter (ch. X)
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Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Abstinence
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
Author: Hippocrates of Iphicrates
Source: Aphorisms (6)
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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.]
Author: Metastasio (pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro)
Source: Giuseppe Riconosciuto (I)
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Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
[Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Ara Amatoria (II, 310)
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Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
[Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Tristium (III, 8, 25)
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I have learned more about love, selflessness and human
understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than I
ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my
life.
Author: Anthony Perkins
Source: a posthumous statement, in the "Independent", Sep. 20, 1992
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And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most
serious which proceeds from the head.
[Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est
morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]
Author: Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus)
Source: Epistles (bk. IV, 22)
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As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death,
The younger disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 133)
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But just disease to luxury succeeds,
And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 165)
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O, he's a limb that has but a disease:
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Menenius at III, i)
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Diseases desperate grown
By desparate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pandulph at III, iv)
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Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims (301)
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Vice President Dick Cheney is currently out in South Dakota on a three-day hunting trip. What better place for a man who has had four heart attacks than to be carrying a big gun and a backpack through the snow looking for red meat.
Author: Jay Leno
Source: None
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Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: None
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Some remedies are worse than the diseases.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: None
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A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: None
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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Source: None
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
Author: William Lyon Phelps
Source: None
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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Source: None
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Author: Agnes Repplier
Source: None
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It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.
Author: Joshua Loth Liebman
Source: None
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There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
Author: Bernard M. Baruch
Source: None
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When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs.
Author: Russian Proverb
Source: None
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The captive birds no longer flew
Their cadaverous bodies giving flu
and Avian Spongiform Encephalopathy
.. Mad Chicken Mad Turkey Mad Bird
in Aviano and everywhere daily grew.
Author: O Anna Niemus
Source: None
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