Herbs Quotes

• All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

  Paracelsus

  Healing, Health, Men

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• There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

  Avicenna

  Teacher, Teaching, Disease

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• Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

  Charlemagne

  Pride, Garden, Physicians

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• A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Medicine, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

  Mourning Dove

  Native American, Marijuana, Purpose

  Mourning Dove (1994). “Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography”, p.69, U of Nebraska Press

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• What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

  William Lawson

  Garden, Tree, Religion

  Gervase Markham, William Lawson (1668). “A Way to Get Wealth: Containing Six Principall Vocations, Or Callings, in which Every Good Husband Or House-wife May Lawfully Imploy Themselves ...”

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• Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  World, Littles, Cups

  Van Wyck Brooks (1944). “Literature in New England: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915”, New York Garden City [1944]

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• And may we ever have gratitude in hearts that the great Creator in all His glory has placed the herbs in the field for our healing.

  Edward Bach

  Gratitude, Healing, Heart

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• She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary – and a sweet lover who would swing dance with her in the evenings and cook pasta and read poetry aloud.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sweet, Real, Flower

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• Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Men, Lotuses, Green

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Proverbial philosophy”, p.19

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• As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Weed, Nature

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• Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Disease, Cures, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Littles, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.97, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

  Chinua Achebe

  Disease

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.133, Heinemann

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• We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

  Walter Scott

  "Ivanhoe: the History Focus".

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• The famous herbalist Samuel Thompson used two herbs mainly, cayenne & lobelia. And with those two herbs, it is estimated he helped 3.5 million people recover from their illnesses.

  Richard M. Schulze

  Two, Medicine, People

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• Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hurt, Stars, Night

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• Vegetables, herbs and spices. If you can combine those ingredients, that would be the best dish you'd ever cook!

  Rinrin Marinka

  Vegetables, Ingredients, Would Be

  Source: sea.askmen.com

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• Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.

  Francis of Assisi

  Mother, Flower, Environmental

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1951). “The Little Flowers of St. Francis: The Mirror of Perfection; The Life of St. Francis”

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• Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

  Plato

  Wise, Honey, Bees

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• There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

  William Shakespeare

  Remembrance, Hamlet And Ophelia, Rosemary

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1794). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet”, p.350

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• All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. Theyre also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time.

  Suzanne Somers

  Spices, Helping, Incredibles

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• Herb is the unification of mankind.

  Bob Marley

  Unification, Mankind

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• In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
  From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Healing, Dew

  Alexander Pope (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.17

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• Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.

  Pearl Cleage

  Loneliness, Coffee, Self Worth

  Pearl Cleage (1990). “Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth”, Cleage Group

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