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“Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.”

Wells Interest Please Disease Tales Mortals Charm Minors Worn Chords Stale Dreary Malady

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“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.”

Needs Believe Spiritual Religion I Believe Causes Deals Moral Christianity Disease Consequence Roots Radical Symptoms Imperatives Revival Reformation Malady

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“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.”

Firsts Blood Produce Disease Revenge Remedy Remorse Fever Malady Relapse

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.”

Want Mean Suffering Laughing Disease Ridiculous Pity Scratches Malady

Author:Andre Gide

“When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.”

Knows Men Should Mind Truth Purpose Common Progress Example Moon Disease Seasons Errors Curiosity Determine Curious Chiefs Motive Etc Restless Malady Seasons Change

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.”

Soul Body Form Disease Cures Momentary Malady Relapse

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The thing is that the ego cannot cure itself of its own malady of egoism; it's already infected by the disease itself. And that is why it is necessary to go to a guru who knows God and by absorbing his consciousness into yourself, you discover that you aren't this ego. You cross that abyss and you find that you are infinite.”

Knows Consciousness Ego Disease Crosses Infinite Cures Abyss Guru Knowing God Egoism Absorbing Malady

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.”

Want Doe Growth Economic Disease Treats Environmental Cures Treatment Physicians Unlimited Degradation Malady Environmental Degradation Prescribing Dosage

Author:Herman E. Daly

“Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was there a psychological term for that? Was there a disease that involved an intense desire to die, but no will to go through with it? Couldn't talk and thoughts of suicide be considered a whole malady of their own, a special subcategory of depression in which the loss of a will to live has not quite been displaced by a determination to die?”

Whole Pain Desire Dies Term Loss Walks Special Involved Disease Determination Suicide Intense Psychological Suicidal Reverie Malady Will To Live

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America