"Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned……" — Thomas Sydenham
"Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick."
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20 Quotes by Thomas Sydenham
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Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
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The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses…
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I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of…
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Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.
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Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals,…
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Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
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We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby…
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The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper…
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It is my nature to thin where others read.
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Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so…
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A man is as old as his arteries.
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Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
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Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are…
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The first time I saw Giggsy, he was playing for Salford Boys against United's apprentices. He was thin and wiry…
— Bryan Robson
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If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there…
— Aristotle
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Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.
— Jacques Necker
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Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek…
— William Coperthwaite
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At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that…
— Richard Dooling
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I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see…
— Michael Gungor
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The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who…
— Steven Pressfield
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To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in…
— Barbara Tuchman
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A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time…
— Dallas Willard
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