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Sick as a parrot.
Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them,They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.But go ye and learnwhat that meaneth,Iwill have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Heal the sick, cleansethe lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and yegaveme drink: Iwas a stranger, and yetook me in: Naked,and ye clothedme: Iwassick, and yevisited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them,They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 114
I'll thcream and thcream and thcream until I'm thick.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth.
A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.
Democracy is not a polite employer The only way out of elective office is to get sick or die or get kicked out.
How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make every one wretched for 24 hours.
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me.I am sickof both.
How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me intothegrave, and Ifeelsomething iswrong,Iwill get up.
The people die so, that now it seems theyare fain to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights not sufficing to do it in. And my Lord Mayor commands people to be within at 9 at night, all (as they say) that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for ayre.
Only do always in health what you have often promised to do when you are sick.
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.Everyone who isborn holds dual citizenship, inthekingdomofthewell and inthekingdomofthesick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooneror latereach of us is obliged, at least fora spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
When I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside me lay To keep me happy all the day.
Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow. Be near me when the sensuous frame Is racked with pains that conquer trust; And Time, a maniac scattering dust, And Life, a Fury slinging flame.
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away: 'Spanishships of warat sea! Wehavesighted fifty-three!' Then sware Lord Thomas Howard: ''Fore God I am no coward; But I cannot meetthem here, for my ships are out of gear, And the half my men are sick. I must fly, but followquick. Wearesix ships oftheline; canwefight withfifty-three?' Then spake Sir Richard Grenville: 'I know you are no coward; You fly them for a moment to fight with them again. But I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore. I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard, To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain.' So Lord Howard passed away with five ships of war that day, Till he melted like a cloud in the silent summer heaven.
All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.
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