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"Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body."
"Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease."
"Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever."
"There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that."
"The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last."
"R.Pattz fever is a lot louder than George Clooney fever. The younger girls are a little louder."
"War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war."
"The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart."
"Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions."
"The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration."
"Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason."
"Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some"
"Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself."
"Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard."
"Six weeks with a fever is an eternity."
"Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education."
