#diseased

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. ↗

— Felix Adler

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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment? ↗

— Aeschylus

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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. ↗

— William O. Douglas

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When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion. ↗

— George Etherege

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Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed. ↗

— David Hackworth

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Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased. ↗

— Joe Klein

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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. ↗

— Sophocles

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A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

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. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . . ↗

— Charles Dickens

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