"If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed."

Nature, Man, Want

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"If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed."

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"Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster."

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"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy."

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"We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself."

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"The interpretation of dreams is a great art."

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"What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?"

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"Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics."

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"This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine."

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"Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man."

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"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided."

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"It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

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"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"The ocean is a mighty harmonist."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

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"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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