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To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Natural History of Massachusetts (1842), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 104, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Third Selection, New York (1986).)
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You're not sick you're just in love.
(Irving Berlin (1888-1989), U.S. songwriter. "You're Just in Love," Call Me Madam, Irving Berlin Music Corp. (1950).
Music composed by Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981).)
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Men, my dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horse- nervousness, ass-stubbornness, and camel-malice—with an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the apple in the posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive.
Oh, England. Sick in head and sick in heart,
Sick in whole and every part,
And yet sicker thou art still
For thinking that thou art not ill.
(Thomas Henry Anonymous (1825-95), British biologist and educator. Reflection #385, Aphorisms and Reflections, 17th century.
"Posset" is a hot milk drink curdled with ale or wine and sweetened or spiced. Inscribed in Melrose Abbey.)
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Oh, he's a sick man, frustrated. Sick in his mind, sick in his soul, if he has one. He hates everybody that has anything that he can't have. Hates us mostly, I guess.
(Frances Goodrich (1891-1984), U.S. screenwriter, and Frank Capra. Peter Bailey (Samuel S. Hinds), It's a Wonderful Life, explaining to his son why Mr. Potter is so mean (1947).
Based on a story by Philip Van Doren Stern.)
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I thought it said in every tick:
I am so sick, so sick, so sick:
O death, come quick, come quick, come quick,
Come quick, come quick, come quick, come quick. . . .
(Frances Cornford (1886-1960), British poet. The Watch (l. 7-10). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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Oh, he's a sick man, frustrated. Sick in his mind, sick in his soul, if he has one. He hates everybody that has anything that he can't have. Hates us mostly, I guess.
(Frances Goodrich (1891-1984), U.S. screenwriter, and Frank Capra. Peter Bailey (Samuel S. Hinds), It's a Wonderful Life, explaining to his son why Mr. Potter is so mean (1947).
Additional scenes by Jo Swerling . Based on a story by Philip Van Doren Stern.)
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
(Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, May 1776 (1791).)
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To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 352, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Lesson for Today.")
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