Silas Weir Mitchell Quotes

• There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Strong, Pain, Suffering

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• Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Lying, Healing, Health

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• He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Art, Winning, New Friends

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”

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• Death's but one more to-morrow.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Morrow

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria

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• Up anchor! Up anchor!
  Set sail and away!
  The ventures of dreamland
  Are thine for a day.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Dream, Anchors, Venture

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria

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• The arctic loneliness of age.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Loneliness, Age, Arctic

  Medical proverbs by F.H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine October: 979 - 1005 (1928)

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• Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Flower

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”

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