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“No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.”

Difficult Imagination Disease Illusion Conscience Guilt Complicated Cures Fancy Dread Distinguished

Book:Commonplace Book

Source: Commonplace Book

“Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.”

People Firsts Hard Philosophy Evil Difficult Silence Talking Produce Conversation Disease Cures Remedy Inability Talkative

Book:Plutarch's Complete Works

Source: Plutarch's Complete Works

“Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.”

Thinking Culture Courses Difficult Disease Oneself Discrimination

Author:Chrystos

“The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.”

Ifs Way Want Mind Earth Heaven Difficult Differences Perfect Struggle Clear Worst Disease Picks Dislike Heaven And Earth

Book:Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.”

Giving Would Be Fighting Left Parent Difficult My Own Childhood Battle Disease Giving Up Warrior Substitutes Stable Stoic

Author:Joni Mitchell

“New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.”

People Feels Trying Moments Causes Difficult Community Disease Anxiety Bird Tough Worried Flu Very Sad Difficult Moments Sars Bird Flu

Author:Margaret Chan

“It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.”

Difficult Generations Disease Prevailing

Book:Amarance

Source: Amarance