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“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
Mother Teresa Quotes |
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“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta Quotes |
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“First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.”
Steve Martin Quotes |
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“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...”
Robert Heinlein Quotes |
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“Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.”
Bill Maher Quotes |
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“The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured”
Ethiopian Proverb Quotes |
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“The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.”
Dr. Joel J. Nobel Quotes |
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“When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.”
Anton Chekhov Quotes |
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“War is the symptom, not the disease.”
L. M. Heroux Quotes |
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“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
Francis Bacon Quotes 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.”
Robert Burton Quotes 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.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes 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.”
Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy Quotes Source: Science and Health (ch. XIV, 20)
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“That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes 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.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes Source: The Scarlet Letter (ch. X)
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“Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: Abstinence
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“Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.”
Hippocrates of Iphicrates Quotes 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.]”
Metastasio (pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro) Quotes Source: Giuseppe Riconosciuto (I)
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“Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
[Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Ara Amatoria (II, 310)
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“Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
[Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes 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.”
Anthony Perkins Quotes 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.]”
Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus) Quotes 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.”
Alexander Pope Quotes 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.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 165)
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