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Silas Weir Mitchell Quotes

Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

Silas Weir Mitchell
Lying, Healing, Health

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

Silas Weir Mitchell
Strong, Pain, Suffering

He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

Silas Weir Mitchell
Art, Winning, New Friends
Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”

Death's but one more to-morrow.

Silas Weir Mitchell
Morrow
Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria

Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.

Silas Weir Mitchell
Dream, Anchors, Venture
Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria

The arctic loneliness of age.

Silas Weir Mitchell
Loneliness, Age, Arctic
Medical proverbs by F.H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine October: 979 - 1005 (1928)

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

Silas Weir Mitchell
Uplifting, Memorial Day, Flower
Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”

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