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A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)
 'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er,
 To try one desp'rate med'cine more;
  For where your case read more 
 'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er,
 To try one desp'rate med'cine more;
  For where your case can be no worse,
   The desp'rat'st is the wisest course. 
 Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an 
art.
 [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes read more 
 Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an 
art.
 [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ars nulla 
medicina est.] 
 But, when the wit began to wheeze,
 And wine had warm'd the politician,
  Cur'd yesterday of my read more 
 But, when the wit began to wheeze,
 And wine had warm'd the politician,
  Cur'd yesterday of my disease,
   I died last night of my physician. 
 The physician heals, Nature makes well.
 [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.]  
 The physician heals, Nature makes well.
 [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.] 
 We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.
 [Lat., Dulcia non ferimus; succo renovamus amaro.]  
 We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.
 [Lat., Dulcia non ferimus; succo renovamus amaro.] 
 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. 
 So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art
 By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part,
  Bold in the read more 
 So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art
 By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part,
  Bold in the practice of mistaken rules,
   Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools. 
There is no medicine to cure hatred
There is no medicine to cure hatred