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Nurse Quotes - Page 7

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1871). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :”, p.20

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

William Shakespeare (2012). “Measure for Measure”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

Life is the soul's nursery.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.275

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.177

The world is no nursery.

Sigmund Freud (1965). “New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis”

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.447