Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
MAIMONIDESLet nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Hold firmly to your word.
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A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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God cannot be compared to anything.
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
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Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
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The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God’s knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.
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Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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