Silas Weir Mitchell citations

Silas Weir Mitchell, né le 15 février 1829 à Philadelphie, Pennsylvanie et mort le 4 janvier 1914, est un médecin neurologue et écrivain américain. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. février 1829 – 4. janvier 1914
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Silas Weir Mitchell: Citations en anglais

“The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.”

Silas Weir Mitchell

Dreamland, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Contexte: Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.

“Where did this filthy thing come from?”

Silas Weir Mitchell

While throwing a book on psychoanalysis into a fire; reported in Ernest Penney Earnest, S. Weir Mitchell, Novelist and Physician (1950), p. 180.
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“I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics.”

Silas Weir Mitchell

Transaction of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1887, 9: 337, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Death’s but one more to-morrow.”

Silas Weir Mitchell

Of one who seemed to have failed, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books.”

Silas Weir Mitchell

Quoted by Harvey W. Cushing in The Life of Sir William Osler http://books.google.com/books?id=Vo01Mhanh64C&q="The+first+thing+to+be+done+by+a+biographer+in+estimating+character+is+to+examine+the+stubs+of+his+victim's+cheque+books"&pg=PA583#v=onepage, Vol. 1, Ch. 21 (1925).

“When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate,
And time seemed but the vassal of my will,
I entertained certain guests of state—
The great of older days.”

Silas Weir Mitchell

On a Boy's first Reading of "King Henry V", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); comparable to "I am the master of my fate", William Ernest Henley, Invictus (1875).

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