Cures Quotes - Page 19

• Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sleep, Waking, Trouble

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1858). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.587

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• Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

  William Shakespeare

  Blind, Reason, Stumbling

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.132, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Grief, Men

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Anxiety, Abuse

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Littles, Alienation

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• We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.

  Eric Hoffer

  Military, Moving, Fighting

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Society, Technique

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men, Giving, Trying

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

  Ovid

  Grief, Tears, Satisfaction

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• When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Demand, Desperate, Cowardice

  Samuel Johnson (1809). “Works”, p.225

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• I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ideas, Wish, Lovers

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.20

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• If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate ... but I can have a 100 percent compassion rate'.

  Patch Adams

  Compassion, Doctors, Percentages

  Real Patch Adams says jokes aid practical medicine, www.cnn.com. January 11, 1999.

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• There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more.

  Conan O'Brien

  Moving, Self, Loathing

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• Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Psychology, Disease, Should

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• If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Flower, Thinking, Hoe

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.372, A&C Black

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• How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Children, Sick, Blind

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• The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.

  Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

  Artist, Love Is, Men

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• I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be - cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world.

  Brad Pitt

  Luxury, Cost, Gone

  "Brad Pitt narrates six-hour PBS miniseries". www.today.com. November 1, 2005.

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• I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.

  James Wolfe

  Cancer, Mean, One Day

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• I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.

  Robert Winston

  Cancer, Thinking, Years

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• To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.

  Richard Ashcroft

  Support, Disease, Scientist

  "Has stem cell research been over-hyped?" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.

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• There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Thinking, Physicians

  Erasmus Darwin, Robert Waring Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...”, p.2

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• ... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure. ... of being creative individuals.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Uplifting, Mean, Achievement

  Norman Vincent Peale (1982). “The amazing results of positive thinking”, Fawcett

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• The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Cutting, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.23, Prabhat Prakashan

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  To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Worry, Mind

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.64, Open Road Media

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