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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

Paracelsus

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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Leave Nature Reading Walk
As you talk, so is your heart.
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Character Heart One Liner Talk
The main reason for healing is love.
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Healing Love Reason
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Dosage Drugs
The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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Body Human Life Material Stars Sunshine
In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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Break Heaven Human
All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Distinguish Poison Remedy Simplicity
Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
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Appearance God Goodness Himself
And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
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Best Discover Live Reveal True
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Live Reason Spirit
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Hide Result Reveal
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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Attack Body Fight Health Himself Nature Sick
Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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Arts Beginning Determination Imagination Man Uncertain Willing
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
It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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Constitution Existence Influence Man Rule Wisdom
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Gold Man Nature
We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time
Man is ill because he is never still.
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Calm Man Sick
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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Design Measurement Mystery Time Wind
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Art Health Medicine Root
Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Blood System Woman
If we want to make a statement about a man’s nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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Man Nature Reveal Statement
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
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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Appearance Dreams God Greatness Natural Predicament Reveal Send
What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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Beginning Bliss Death Earth God Holy Kingdom Life
Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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Be Yourself Himself

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