"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."

Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author

Cure, Egotism, Name, Self

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"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."

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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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"Precaution is better than cure."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Research is what it's going to take to cure all these diseases."

Mort Kondracke, American Journalist

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"And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine."

Mort Kondracke, American Journalist

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"Cure for an obsession: get another one."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether."

Jim Palmer, American Athlete

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"You can die of the cure before you die of the illness."

Michael Landon, American Actor

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"Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure."

David Viscott, American Psychologist

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"No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to."

Robert Smith, English Musician

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"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."

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"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."

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"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."

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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."

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"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."

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"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better."

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