“I have no remedy for fear; there grows
No herb of help to heal a coward heart.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Queen Mary Stuart as portrayed in Bothwell. Act II, Sc. 13.
Bothwell : A Tragedy (1874)
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
As recorded in filmed interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfYAJ3dQyY&feature=player_embedded (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand <br class="br">The people who are trying to make this world worse aren't taking a day off. How can I?
XI. 514–515 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Louis Zamperini (1917–2014) Italian-American middle distance runner
Variant: I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's healing, actually, it's real healing...
Forgiveness.
“Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.”
Lucy Stone (1818–1893) American abolitionist and suffragist
The Progress of Fifty Years (1893)
Context: Get but a truth once uttered, and 'tis like
A star new born that drops into its place;
And which, once circling in its placid round,
Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
“Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.”
William S. Burroughs book Naked Lunch
From "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness", p. 201
Naked Lunch (1959)
“I knew that I had been chosen as God's instrument for the work of the healing of the nation.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Letter from 1938, as quoted in My Father : The True Story (1955) by A. W. Baldwin, pp. 327 - 328
1938
Robert A. Hall (1946) American politician
I'm Tired (February 19, 2009)
