malady quotes

  • Life is a malady whose one medicine is Death.

    -Abu'l-'Ala   Al-Ma'arri
    c.1000  Luzu'  miyya'  t, stanza 41 (translated by R  A Nicholson in Studies in Islamic Poetry,1921).

  • But love's a malady without a cure.

    -John Dryden
      Palamon and  Arcite, bk.2, l.110.

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