Sickness quotes
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"A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion."
"take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning"
"Sickness is not just in the body, it could be in the mind, it could be in your intellect; it could be in the inhibitions of your intellect"
"I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness."
"Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also."
"Dualistic thinking is a sickness."
"Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]"
"The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising."
"I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness."
