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Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. - Bible, Isaiah (ch. I, v. 5) The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before You sneer, and I assure you this is true, For I have found it answer--so may you. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto II, st. 13) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. - George Colman ("The Younger"), Broad Grins--Lodgings for Single Gentlemen (st. 7) Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind. - Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, Science and Health (ch. XIV) It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Prevention is better than cure. - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus I've that within for which there are no plasters. - David Garrick, in prologue to Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer" Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse--The Old Manse--The Procession of Life A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach. - Charles Robert Maturin, Bertram (act IV, sc. 2) 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. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii) 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? - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Portia at II, i) Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at IV, i) My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things. - William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at V, i) I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. - George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't naw coomfut in 'er, an' arn'd naw thanks fur 'er paains. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Village Wife The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate. - Jessamyn West Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. - Thomas Wolfe (Thomas Clayton Wolfe), Look Homeward, Angel (pt. I, ch. 1) I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold. - Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire V, l. 185)
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