Hilaire Belloc book Cautionary Tales for Children
"Henry King, Who Chewed Bits of String, and Was Early Cut off in Dreadful Agonies"
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)
“Cured yesterday of my disease,
I died last night of my physician.”
The Remedy Worse than the Disease (1714).
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I died last night of my physician." by Matthew Prior?
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Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 3, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven
Song lyrics, Waking Up the Neighbours (1991)
“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, line 378; compare: "Apt words have power to suage / The tumours of a troubl'd mind", John Milton, Samson Agonistes.
“Thank God,
my name isn't in the list of those
who died or were
killed yesterday!”
Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
<span class="plainlinks"> Every Morning http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/every-morning-7/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry
“When a man of my father’s wealth dies of cancer, you know they haven’t found a cure.”
Edward St. Aubyn (1960) British writer
Some Hope, Chapter 9
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
At the funeral of his first wife, Kato Svanidze, on 25 November 1907, as quoted in Young Stalin (2007) by Simon Sebag Montefiore, p. 193
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