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Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.

— Peter Mere Latham

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Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.

We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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