Benjamin Rush Quotes
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
Benjamin Rush
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
Albert Einstein
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
Epictetus
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
William Hurt
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O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.
Randy Alcorn
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Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.
William Shakespeare
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Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
Plutarch
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There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.
Gertrude Atherton
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Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.
Jules Michelet
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
Benjamin Rush
