"We are not ourselves When nature, being..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
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“The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.”
“When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.”
“My love is as a fever, longing stillFor that which longer nurseth the disease,Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.My reason, the physician to my love,Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,Hath left me, and I desperate now approveDesire is death, which physic did except.”