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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 165) Desperate diseases need desperate cures. - Proverb This sickness doth infect The very, life-blood of our enterprise. - William Shakespeare O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy. - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Menenius at III, i) Diseases desperate grown By desparate appliance are relieved, Or not at all. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, iii) 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. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Falstaff at I, ii) I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) 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. - William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (Pandulph at III, iv) Some remedies are worse than the disease itself. [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims (301) Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption. - Henry David Thoreau Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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