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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought read more
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Sickness shows us what we are
Sickness shows us what we are
If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's read more
If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say... the red is positive and the black is negative.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a read more
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least read more
I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through read more
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
