Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Sea Quotes, Sick Quotes

There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

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The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

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Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

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I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

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I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

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The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

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He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

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But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

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Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

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The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

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Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

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O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.

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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

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