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Many diseases may be cured by abstinence.


Thomas Carlyle

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Diseases are not cured by giving them a name.
MARTY RUBIN Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
ROBERT HERRICK Against Diseases here, the strongest Fence, Is the defensive Virtue, Abstinence.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
GEORGE HERBERT For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an ind...
SUSAN SONTAG A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills
SPANISH PROVERB The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseas...
CASKIE STINNETT Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 dis...
ROSA DELAURO Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.
DANISH PROVERB First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
DANIEL NATHANS Carlyle! The man with a thousand faces.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
OVID Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED E. SMITH All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED SMITH All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED EMANUEL SMITH Love is a disease which cannot be cured by medicinal herbs.
VIKRANT PARSAI All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
AL SMITH True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...
THOMAS CARLYLE Ambition is like a plague that can only be cured by success.
TERRANCE ROBINSON- ARTIST EDUCATOR SCHOLAR ENTREPRENEUR Contraries are cured by contraries.
PROVERB Contraries are cured by contraries.
CESARE PAVESE Politics: Poly.
MANY Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, f...
CAITRIONA BALFE At Home at the Carlyle
ELAINE STRITCH At Home at the Carlyle.
ELAINE STRITCH Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not ...
ISAIAH BERLIN Some evils are cured by contempt.
PROVERB Some evils are cured by contempt.
GEORGE HERBERT Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. Th...
ARLEN SPECTER Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
SOURCE UNKNOWN They are a little different from Carlyle. They are a little bigger and they spread the floor more wi...
CHAD CLUVER It lists reportable diseases by state and has pictures of different animal diseases.
SANDY AMASS There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
BILL CLINTON There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America
BILL CLINTON All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Everyone feels Frank will come back and be the Frank Thomas we've seen for many years,
ARN TELLEM It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
JOHN L. MCCLENAHAN A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
LAWRENCE G. LOVASIK A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.
A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.
ANONYMOUS It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be exp...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN The circuit court didn't find the evidence unpersuasive. Instructions can be cured, whereas presenta...
MARK ZAUDERER To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Society wants to see him cured. He wants to be cured. Society want to be safe. He wants to be safe.
DON SAMUEL It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be cured by baldness.
UNKNOWN There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.
UNKNOWN Dengue is one of these neglected diseases ... it's basically been ignored for many, many years.
DUANE GUBLER The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
WILLIAM TEMPLE The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor
WILLIAM TEMPLE SR. The past cannot be cured.
ELIZABETH I By suppers more have beene killed then Gallen ever cured.
GEORGE HERBERT By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured
GEORGE HERBERT What can't be cured must be endured.
ROBERT BURTON What can't be cured must be endured
PROVERB What can't be cured must be endured.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many...
ROBERT T. BAKKER He never cared too much for parties or people, but misanthropy could easily be cured by several alco...
DANIEL J. RICE Life may not be a spectator sport but many spend time watching it go by.
VIKRANT PARSAI Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in h...
SARGENT SHRIVER POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless Christmas dinner's dark and blue When you sto...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Reborn, Sappho wears monks' saffron.
SAIOM SHRIVER We all know there is blood in meat (USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee).
CHARLES GRASSLEY Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chicken kept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.
ART MARGOLIS "meat produced under current factory farming conditions (which transgress Jewish prohibitions again...
RABBI DAVID ROSEN Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Abstinence is easier than temperance
SENECA Abstinence is the surety of temperance
PLATO The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
DOROTHY DAY He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afte...
BILL MAHER All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EPICTETUS I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you...
DEAN MARTIN Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. FIELDS It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercises at the same time. Kissing, talking, eati...
O ANNA NIEMUS Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
CHARLES DICKENS Why have a cake if I can't eat it?
VANNA BONTA If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else
DENNIS WOLFBERG But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hear...
BIBLE Praising the lean and sallow abstinence.
JOHN MILTON Abstinence-only is the only realistic message. It's the only thing that works. Now, the subject of c...
DON MCLEROY Isn't practicing abstinence inconsistently like being a little bit pregnant?
JAMES TARANTO Enough is enough. For too long these abstinence-only programs have operated without a hint of oversi...
JAMES WAGONER This is going to be tissue donation by compassionate people who want to cure these diseases.
DOUGLAS MELTON Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man without regrets cannot be cured.
ARISTOTLE Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.
NED VIZZINI We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improve...
WILLIAM COOKE TAYLOR Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medic...
BIBLE Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligen...
TITUS LIVIUS Many of the positions will be in manufacturing. The company expects to have new products, serving th...
MATT CABREY Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. De...
IRVING KIRSCH There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important dise...
WILLIAM OSLER But bacon's not the only thing / That's cured by hanging from a string.
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