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There is no medicine to cure hatred
There is no medicine to cure hatred
 You rub the sore
 When you should bring the plaster!  
 You rub the sore
 When you should bring the plaster! 
 But in this point
 All his tricks founder and he brings his physic
  After his patient's death: read more 
 But in this point
 All his tricks founder and he brings his physic
  After his patient's death: the king already
   Hath married the fair lady. 
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in read more
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing
 When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
 And I must minister the like to you.  
 When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
 And I must minister the like to you. 
 And in requital ope his leathern scrip,
 And show me simples of a thousand names,
  Telling their read more 
 And in requital ope his leathern scrip,
 And show me simples of a thousand names,
  Telling their strange and vigorous faculties. 
 A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds 
hurt of, is the best physic read more 
 A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds 
hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. 
 A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
 [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.]  
 A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
 [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.] 
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.