Part 109 (2/2)

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Dear me! a patient--what a happy tone, To have a patient, and one all my own-- To have a patient and h indeed-- I saw a practice growing from the seed

--_W is the doctor's best friend all over the whole world

1512

Temperance and toil are the two real physicians of mankind

1513

The purse of the patient frequently, alas! protracts his cure

--_Zimmer else but the substitute of exercise and temperance

--_Addison_

1515

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike

1516

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain And drinks and gaps for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair

--_A Cowley_

1517

THE BREVITY OF PLEASURES

Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever

--_Burns: Tanity to be kept up in pleasures as well as in business