Benjamin Rush Quotes
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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You don't talk to terror organizations!
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
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I remember a West Coast run with Madness and another with Adam Ant, later a long run through the Midwest with Berlin and a few gigs with Eurythmics.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
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God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.
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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
