"Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are……" — John Brown

"Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language."

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24 Quotes by John Brown

John Brown has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of…
I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered…
No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy…
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt…
I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and…
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light…
I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned…
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to…
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable…
I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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