Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
PARACELSUSAll drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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