The purse of the patient frequently, alas! protracts his cure.
—Zimmerman.
1514
Physic, for the most part, is nothing 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.