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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Hester Lynch Piozzi
Physicians, Scythes, Sometimes
Letter to Fanny Burney, 22 November (1781)
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.