Benjamin Rush Quotes
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
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The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.
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However it happened, she at any rate suffered herself to be allured to the fatal spot, and so gave opportunity to the Devil. For we should keep as far as possible from that which is prohibited, nor ever tempt God by unnecessarily approaching it, either through curiosity or any other impelling cause. Had Eve avoided the vicinity of the tree, she could never have cast upon it that look which ruined herself and the world.
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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
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It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also to the nation as a whole... If the Churches were to declare themselves ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from sterilizing them.
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
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One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.
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In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
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Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the past.
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People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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When you are younger, you pretend to believe, but you are proving it to everyone and to yourself. The change comes when you know you're funny on the inside. Then you don't have to prove it to anybody else anymore. That's when you become different and that's when you evolved onto a completely different level, because you know who you are.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
