Lord Byron Quotes, Medicine Quotes, Physicians Quotes

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

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A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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The busy have no time for tears.

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Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

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A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

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Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

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What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

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Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

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For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

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I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

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