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Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

Silas Weir Mitchell

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

Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.

Silas Weir Mitchell

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

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

He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

Silas Weir Mitchell

The success of a discovery depends upon the time of its appearance.

Silas Weir Mitchell

In science, all sorts of things present themselves and you watch them; the facts are tested, accepted, rejected, or set aside, and at last experiments are made following some apparently fruitful ideas.

Silas Weir Mitchell

Silas Weir Mitchell

Silas Weir Mitchell

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Born: February 15, 1829

Died: January 4, 1914 (aged 84)

Bio: Silas Weir Mitchell was an American physician and writer known for his discovery of causalgia and erythromelalgia.

Known for:

Grimm
The Whole Ten Yards
Rat Race
A Fork in the Road
Quicksilver Highway

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