Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Sick Quotes, Succeed Quotes

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

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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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The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

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Words are healers of the sick tempered.

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If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I'd go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the 'Hallelujah Chorus'.

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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

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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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The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

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The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell

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He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

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

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the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)

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If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.

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

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The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

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

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Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.

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Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

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