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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please
your lordship, a kind of sleeping read more
This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please
your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson
tingling.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of read more
We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.
[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry
them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, read more
[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry
them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as
so many anatomies.
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most
serious which proceeds from the head.
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And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most
serious which proceeds from the head.
[Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est
morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Apoplexic, and Lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
Apoplexic, and Lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of read more
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.