" Nevertheless his own "sickness" was not the principal affair.

In some cases, sickness and even death is the result.

But the suffering and waste of life, apart from the combat, the sickness, the depreciation of vital force, the withering of constitutional energy, and the mortality in camp and fortress, in barrack, tent, and hospital, have not usually been the subjects of such careful observation, nor the grounds of fear to the soldier and of anxiety to those who are interested in his safety.

Home-sickness has never been my failing, but all at once I had a vision of my own land, the cradle of my race, well-beloved and unforgotten over the leagues of sea.

Sickness among the thousands of troops in the city there already was, also a few cases of gunshots in the accident wards incident on the carelessness or ignorance of raw volunteers.

Sickness of Persons in high Posts, Twilight Visits paid and received by Ministers of State, Clandestine Courtships and Marriages, Secret Amours, Losses at Play, Applications for Places, with their respective Successes or Repulses, are the Materials in which I chiefly intend to deal.

Sickness and oceanic war are the only agents that from time to time announce their existence in a casual way, as they float over the waves with members relaxed, snatched at by the iron jaws of the flesh-eating fish.

Home-sickness has never been my failing, but all at once I had a vision of my own land, the cradle of my race, well-beloved and unforgotten over the leagues of sea.

Every sickness is a musical problem; the cure is the musical solution.

Scorn, derision, insult, menacethe handcuff, the lashthe tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wivesthe weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labour of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heartthese are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather than the exception, in the slave's experience.

Just as sickness is my love to you, my dear.

Life does not engender death; darkness is not the origin of light; sickness is not the maker of health.

In him, to whom sickness, suffering, and death had been a familiar sight, the militant pity of the physician awoke.

Sickness is the schoolmaster, leading you to Christ; first to faith in Christ; next to belief in God as omnipotent; and finally to the understanding of God and man in Christian Science, whereby you learn that God is good, and in Science man is His likeness, the forever reflection of goodness.

Sickness is the mother of modesty, putteth us in mind of our mortality; and when we are in the full career of worldly pomp and jollity, she pulleth us by the ear, and maketh us know ourselves.

Think no more of what is past, my own; remember only that your mother's blessing, her fervent prayers will hover round you wherever you may be; that, should sickness and sorrow at any time be your portion, however distant we may be, your mother will come to soothe and cheer, your mother's bosom will still be open to receive you.

She was much disappointed on finding that her sickness, after all, was not an "invitation" from the Master.

Lord Henry Seymour, who commanded the division of the fleet stationed in the Straits of Dover, noted that the sickness was a repetition of that of the year before, and attributed it not to bad food, but to the weather.

This sickness of the spirit is the greatest cause of disorder, since malcontent is always the worst kind of leaven.

And when too Satan, the tempter, becomes Satan the accuser, saying in thy heart:"This sickness is the consequence of sin, or sinful infirmity, and thou hast brought thyself into a fearful dilemma; thou canst not hope for salvation as long as thou continuest in any sinful practice, and yet thou canst not abandon thy daily dose of this or that poison without suicide.