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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 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.
Sickness shows us what we are
Sickness shows us what we are
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, read more
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
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.
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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.
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.
