“ The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more. ”
- The Dhammapada- Copy
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“ A corner draft fluttered the flame, and the white fever of temptation, upswept its angel wings that cast, a cruciform shadow. ”
- Boris Pasternak- Copy
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“ Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ Thank Heaven! The crisis — the danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last — and the fever called "Living" is conquered at last. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. ”
- Bruce McCall- Copy
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“ The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names. ”
- Samuel Hahnemann- Copy
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“ I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ The unseasonable man is the sort of person who comes up to you when you are head over ears in work and confides to you all about it. He serenades his mistress when she is ill with fever. He approaches a man who has been cast in a surety case and asks him to stand surety for him… ”
- Theophrastus- Copy
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“ My mother, originally Margaret Virginia Martin, but called Virginia, was herself also born in Bluefield. She had studied at West Virginia University and was a school teacher before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. But my mother's later life was considerably affected by a partial loss of hearing resulting from a scarlet fever infection that came at the time when she was a student at WVU. ”
- John Nash- Copy
- 242
“ Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ”
- Hugo Black- Copy
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“ Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job… ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior… jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior. ”
- Florence Nightingale- Copy
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