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Silas Weir Mitchell
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“I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics.”
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Transaction of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1887, 9: 337, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.”
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dreamland, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Death’s but one more to-morrow.”
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Of one who seemed to have failed, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate, And time seemed but the vassal of my will, I entertained certain guests of state— The great of older days.”
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On a Boy's first Reading of "King Henry V", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); comparable to "I am the master of my fate", William Ernest Henley, Invictus (1875).
“The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books.”
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Harvey W. Cushing in The Life of Sir William Osler, Vol. 1, Ch. 21 (1925).