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Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

Paracelsus

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Amount Cure Poison Portion Remedy
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Earth Element Man Planet Stars World
A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Alcohol Divine Medicine
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Brother Call Fools Ourselves
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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Born Creation Element Establishment Heaven Himself Man Thinking
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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Challenge Finding God Healing Health Man Nature Need Science
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office
Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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Be Yourself Himself
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Art Doctor Healing Mindset Nature
Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.
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Born Children Existence Heaven Hell Human State
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
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Book Himself Knowledge Patient Rich Writing
Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Himself Man
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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Case Doubt Feeling Guide Known Life
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
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Art Employment Medicine Patient Power Science
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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Consequence Human Law Reason Ultimate Universe
I am different. Let this not upset you.
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Different Myself Upset Yourself

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