DISEASE

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1. Some little bug is going to find you some day
   Some little bug will creep behind you some day.—ROY ATWELL, Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You Some Day
   

2. The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.—BUNYAN, The Life & Death of Mr. Badman
   

3. They do not live but linger.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

4. [Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

5. Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Christian Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes any other sense of moral or mental inharmony.—MARY BARER EDDY, Science and Health
   

6. Before you can cure the diseases of the body, you must cure the diseases of the soul—greed, ignorance, prejudice and intolerance.—PAUL EHRLICH
   

7. The number of diseases is a disgrace to mankind.—FENELON, Telemachus
   

8. That dire disease, whose ruthless power
   Withers the beauty's transient flower.—GOLDSMITH, Double Transformation
   

9. This solidarity against pathogenic micro-organisms extends beyond the boundaries of nationality, race, or even species. Every Rumanian infected with infantile paralysis, every Indian with smallpox, every rat with plague, diminishes the probable length of my life.—J. B. S. HALDANE
   

10. A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.—HAWTHORNE, Scarlet Letter
    

11. Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.—HIPPOCRATES, Aphorisms
    

12. Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
    

13. They do certainly give very strange and new-fangled names to diseases.—PLATO, The Republic
    

14. And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.—PLINY THE YOUNGER
    

15. This long disease, my life.—POPE, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

16. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
    Receives the lurking principle of death,
    The young disease, that must subdue at length,
    Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.—POPE, Essay on Man
    

17. But just disease to luxury succeeds.
    And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.—POPE, Essay on Man
    

18. Diseases are the tax on ill pleasures.—Proverb
    

19. A disease known is half cured.—Proverb
    

20. O, he's a limb, that has but a disease;
    Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it easy.—SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
    

21. Diseases desperate grown
    By desperate appliance are relieved,
    Or not at all.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

22. This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

23. Before the curing of a strong disease,
    Even in the instant of repair and health,
    The fit is strongest; evils that take leave,
    On their departure most of all show evil.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

24. I'll forbear;
    And am fallen out with my more headier will,
    To take the indispos'd and sickly fit For the sound man.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear