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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Wendell Phillips

Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse, Only the wild wind moaning Over the lonely house.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land.

William Cullen Bryant

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Gene Fowler

His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.

George Chapman

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

Jack Handy

Do you want to be with your love by the sea hearing the gullsong smelling the salt air feeling the sand beneath your toes and the seaweed the sea's legacy? watching the rise oer the bay of the moon and then ascent of the Sun.. oer neptune?

Saiom Shriver

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

Sir Roger L'Estrange

When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.

Terence Rattigan

The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea!

Edwin Arnold

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Francis Bacon

[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

Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.

Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy

That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower.

Oliver Goldsmith

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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.

Robert Herrick

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Hippocrates of Iphicrates

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. [Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]

Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus)

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The younger disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Alexander Pope

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

Alexander Pope

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

William Shakespeare

Diseases desperate grown By desparate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.

William Shakespeare

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.

William Shakespeare

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