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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 point so remote that it appears like a vision.

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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.

by W. C. Fields Found in: Illness Quotes,
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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.

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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.

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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.

by Hippocrates Found in: Illness Quotes,
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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.

by Albert Schweitzer Found in: Illness Quotes,
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

by Jackie Mason Found in: Illness Quotes,
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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.

by African Proverb Found in: Illness Quotes,
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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

by Marcel Proust Found in: Illness Quotes,
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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Illness Quotes,
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