“Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.”
Act I, sc. ii.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
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George William Russell
(1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
By Still Waters (1906)
“As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.”
Ibid., p. 68
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Assim como lavamos o corpo devíamos lavar o destino, mudar de vida como mudamos de roupa.
“All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.”
Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et corpore sita est; animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum nobis cum dis, alterum cum beluis commune est.
Sallust
(-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician
Source: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter I
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), I
“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.
Julian of Norwich
(1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The First Revelation, Chapter 6
Context: As the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin, and the bones in the flesh, and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and body, clad in the Goodness of God, and enclosed. Yea, and more homely: for all these may waste and wear away, but the Goodness of God is ever whole; and more near to us, without any likeness; for truly our Lover desireth that our soul cleave to Him with all its might, and that we be evermore cleaving to His Goodness. For of all things that heart may think, this pleaseth most God, and soonest speedeth.
