The chief merit of language is clearness.
GALENThe chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
More Galen Quotes
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All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
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Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
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The best physician is also a philosopher.
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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
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Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
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He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.
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The physician is only nature’s assistant.
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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted
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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
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If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
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Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
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A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
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(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
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