Famous quotes containing the words nurse, wound, current and/or work:
“Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
“Good work is not accomplished in haste.”
—Chinese proverb.