A Quote by George Herbert
Some evils are cured by contempt.
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Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.
The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.
The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.
Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.
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