Samuel Garth quotes

“Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.”
-- Samuel Garth

Source : Sir Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell (1822). “The Poems of Garth, and Tickell”, p.54

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“As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air”
-- Samuel Garth

Source : Sir Samuel Garth, Samuel Johnson (1807). “The Poetical Works of Sir Samuel Garth: With the Life of the Author, by Samuel Johnson”, p.44

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“Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.”
-- Samuel Garth

Source : Sir Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell (1822). “The Poems of Garth, and Tickell”, p.48

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“Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.”
-- Samuel Garth

Source : Sir Samuel Garth (1800). “The Poetical Works of Sir Sam. Garth, M.D., with the Life of the Author. Cooke's Edition. [With Illustrations.]”, p.76

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“Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year . . The Rose still blushes, and the vi'lets blow.”
-- Samuel Garth

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“I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.”
-- Samuel Garth

Source : Samuel Garth (2017). “Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, p.301, Youcanprint

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“Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.”
-- Samuel Garth

Source : Sir Samuel Garth (1730). “The Dispensary. A Poem ... The Twelfth Edition. With Several Descriptions and Episodes Never Before Printed. [By Sir Samuel Garth.]”, p.24

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“Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.”
-- Samuel Garth

Source : Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (centenary edition), revised by Ivor Evans (1975)

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“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”

Source : Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.”

“In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone.”

“Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.”

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”

“I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.”

“We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land”

Source : "In Place of Fear". Book by Aneurin Bevan, 1952.

“I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.”

Source : Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.”

“I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.”