The better part of valour is discretion; in the
which better part I have saved my life.
Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop,
Not to outsport discretion.
DISEASE
(See also Medicine Sickness)
Apoplexie, and Lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.
That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole
and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a
symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto
II difetto, che il tronco nasconde
Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.
Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death,
The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his
strength.
But just disease to luxury succeeds,
And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
O, he's a limb, that has but a disease;
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.
Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit is strongest; evils that take leave,
On their departure most of all show evil.
I'll forbear;
And am fallen out with my more headier will,
To take the indispos'd and sickly fit
For the sound man.
Graviora quaadam sunt remedia periculis.
