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• Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

  Aeschylus

  Long, Silence, Harm

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• For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

  Thomas More

  Rain, People, House

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.53, Wordsworth Editions

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• Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Men, Giving, Suffering

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• Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Death, Sleep, Relief

  'Maximes et Pensèes' (1796) ch. 2

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• Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Two, People, Groups

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• Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

  Benjamin Rush

  Water, Hot, Frozen

  Benjamin Rush (1835). “Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind”, p.119

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• Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

  Rashida Jones

  Smile, Beauty, Beautiful

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• The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

  Francois Rabelais

  Running, Dog, Opposites

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• Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

  Peter De Vries

  Soul, Coats, Tweed

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• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  Patrick Leahy

  Rights, Needs, Problem

  "Hatch Wants To Fry Traders' PCs". www.wired.com. June 18, 2013.

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• This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Pain, Islamic

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• The best remedy for anger is delay.

  Brigham Young

  Anger, Delay, Angry

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• Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!

  Bernard Jensen

  Recovery, Medicine, Nutrition

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• Spending some time getting quiet can really be the best remedy for tangled situations. Taking a step back from all the emotion, frustration, and exhaustion to sit quietly with Jesus will do more to untangle a mess than anything else I've ever found.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jesus, Frustration, Tangled

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Mar 15, 2016

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• As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Mean, Cities

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

  Oliver Sacks

  Moving, Orange Juice, Inspirational Music

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• Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

  Og Mandino

  Pain, Self, Laughing

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• Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  Maximes et pensees (1825)

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• More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed.

  Alexis Carrel

  Believe, Dark, Training

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• She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heartache, Trying

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.146, Macmillan

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• Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Revenge, Blood, Fever

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.169

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• Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and encouragement you can, then the virtue within him will, itself do all the rest.

  Edward Bach

  Encouragement, Health, Giving

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• Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

  Paracelsus

  Fasting, Physicians

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• For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Suffering Pain, Pain And Suffering, Strive

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.293

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• Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

  Xenocrates

  Past, Giving, Advice

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