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• When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is.

  Avicenna

  Matter, Strive, Cures

  Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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• Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Revenge, Blood, Fever

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.169

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• Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

  Martin Luther

  Worry, Soul, Body

  Table-Talk 'Of Temptation and Tribulation'

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• memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Soul, Eating

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.209, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

  James Hillman

  Eye, Angel, Invisible

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• The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

  William John Locke

  Life, Antidote, Remedy

  William John Locke (2008). “The Glory of Clementina”, p.188, Wildside Press LLC

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• If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fitness, Health, Numbers

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• Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Men, Legacy

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Physicians, Flesh

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.171, Wordsworth Editions

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• I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Believe, Roots

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• Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

  Matthew Henry

  Prayer, Giving, Answers

  Matthew Henry, Noah Webster (2018). “Matthew Henry Study Bible - Revised King James Version”, p.1505, Importantia Publishing

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• I will say in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Race, Adoption, Choices

  "Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and call it everlasting. They focus on awards, achievements, and whatc an be done in their own strength while the Almighty desires to work trough their weakness.

  Chris Fabry

  Awards, Focus, Achievement

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• Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Summer, Spring, Mean

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.674, ShandonPress

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• Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

  Jean Racine

  Money, Honor, Mere

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• From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with this outlook. All disenchantment is to me a malady, which, it is true, certain circumstances may render inevitable, but which none the less, when it occurs, is to be cured as soon as possible, not to be regarded as a higher form of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Simple, Soul, May

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• Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Misery, Cures

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.

  David Hume

  Theologian, Seems, Bigotry

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• Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

  Charles Dickens

  Laughter, Eye, Wrinkles

  "A Christmas Carol". Book by Charles Dickens, 1843.

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• It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

  Norman Douglas

  Issues, Political, Society

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals.

  David Duke

  Suicide, Psychosis, Ku Klux Klan

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• ...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

  Alberto Moravia

  Flower, Loss, Dust

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Boredom”, p.5, New York Review of Books

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• What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Limits, Belief

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• They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady

  Emily Dickinson

  Suffering, Age, Tests

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.355, Harvard University Press

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• There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Games, Stink

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