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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
Explore more quotes by Thomas Sydenham
"Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows."
"The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs."
"The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain."
"I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps."
"In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance."
"For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple."
"Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout."
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