Samuel Hopkins Adams Quotes

• We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Life, Sympathy, Eternity

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• With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Medicine, United States, Patents

  Collier's Weekly 7 October (1905)

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• Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Medicine, Issues, Secret

  The Great American Fraud p. 39. Collier and Sons (1905)

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• The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Running, Yelling, Effort

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Doctors, Medicine, Promise

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Ignorance, Medicine, Ignorant

  Collier's Weekly 7 October (1905)

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• Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Real, Eye, Men

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2005). “Average Jones”, p.17, 1st World Publishing

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• Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Pain, Medicine, Giving

  The Health Master Ch.3

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• With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Law, Physicians, Medical Profession

  The Health Master Ch. 1

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• Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Eye, Science, Diagnosis

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Ignorance, Drug, Important

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Running, Path, Prey

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.9, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Strong, Inspiration, Poison

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2014). “Success”, p.817, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Bored, Meals, Next

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1917). “Our Square and the People in it”

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• Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Bored

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1917). “Our Square and the People in it”

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• Boredom and booze--cause and effect.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Boredom, Causes, Booze

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1917). “Our Square and the People in it”

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• Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Tails, Straws

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1989). “Grandfather Stories”, p.145, Syracuse University Press

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• Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Morning, Boredom, Thirst

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.4, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Character, Average, Parent

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Girl, Nice, Years

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2013). “Wanted: A Husband: (With Original Illustrations)”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Suicide, Over The Edge, Edges

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1917). “Our Square and the People in it”

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• A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Blasphemy, Practicals, Humans

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2013). “Wanted: A Husband: (With Original Illustrations)”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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