Quotes with sickness

  • How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,

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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Charles Lamb How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Boethius Another cause of your sickness, and the most important: you have forgotten what you are.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Marianne Moore As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Albert Speer Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • William Golding Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • David Lloyd George Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • John Donne God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Joseph Stalin Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
    Joseph Stalin
    Sovjet politician (1878 - 1953)
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  • Hannah Green Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
    Hannah Green
    American writer (1932 - )
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  • Vance Havner I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Abdul Kalam In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Jackie Mason It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
    Jackie Mason
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1928 - 2021)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Henry Miller Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene - nine-tenths of it!
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Felix Frankfurter Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Ellis Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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