“They say the doctors and the nurses are least likely to catch the epidemic. If you have a friend who is dishonest or impure, the surest way to save yourself from him is to try to save him.”

— Phillips Brooks

"Unspotted from the World"

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "They say the doctors and the nurses are least likely to catch the epidemic. If you have a friend who is dishonest or im…" by Phillips Brooks?

Phillips Brooks 16

American clergyman and author 1835–1893

Related quotes

“Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: Incantation

“And if you save yourself
You will make him happy.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Sappy
Song lyrics, B-sides and compilation tracks (1989-1993)

“My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

“Whoever is given good, Allah has given him that, and whoever is saved from an evil Allah has saved him from it.”

Hasan al-Askari (846–874) Eleventh of the Twelve Imams

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 338
Religious Wisdom

“He would have liked to say goodbye,
Shake hands with many friends.
In Highgate now his finger-bones
Stick through his finger-ends.You, God, who treat him thus and thus,
Say, "Save his soul and pray."
You ask me to believe You and
I only see decay.”

John Betjeman (1906–1984) English poet, writer and broadcaster

"On a Portrait of a Deaf Man" line 25, from Old Lights for New Chancels.
Poetry

“Who saves his country, saves himself, saves all things, and all things saved do bless him! Who lets his country die, lets all things die, dies himself ignobly, and all things dying curse him!”

Benjamin Harvey Hill (1823–1882) American politician

Reported in Benjamin H. Hill, Jr., Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia; His Life, Speeches and Writings (1893), epigraph, p. 594. From "Notes on the Situation", a series of articles appearing in the Chronicle and Sentinel, Atlanta, Georgia.