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• That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Ill Will, Way

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.863

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• Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.

  Mary Harron

  Beautiful, People, Cracks

  "Interview: The Bettie Page Story". Interview with Susie Bright, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• Ill ware is never cheape.
  [Ill ware is never cheap.]

  George Herbert

  Business

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• Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.

  Philip Massinger

  News, Crutches, Walks

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• I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.

  Ethel Smyth

  Running, Fate, Luck

  Ethel Smyth (1946). “Impressions that remained”

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• Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Grief, Self, Envy

  Thomas Hobbes, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1999). “The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives”, p.54, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

  Carrie Fisher

  Awards, Bipolar, Done

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• Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Strong, Power, Thinking

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.131, Crux Publishing Ltd

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• Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.

  Andrew Marvell

  World, This World

  Andrew Marvell (1873). “The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Andrew Marvell ...: With ... a Translation of the Greek and Latin Poetry ...”, p.259

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• When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

  James Hilton

  Moving, Book, Years

  James Hilton (1941). “Three Famous Novels: Lost Horizon, Good-bye, Mr. Chips [and] Random Harvest”

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• Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Generosity, Meanness, Good Humor

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• stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Eye, Rights, Democracy

  Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The View from the Ground”, p.284, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

  Winifred Holtby

  People, Mind, Body

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

  Vernon Lee

  Brother, Believe, Thinking

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

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• We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?

  Ruth Rendell

  Sex, Crazy, Men

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• There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Loneliness, Public Life, Whips

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• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.

  Owen Feltham

  Change, Names, Perfection

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.123

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• the more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.

  Ayya Khema

  Ill Will, Hatred, Meditation

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• Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

  Arnold Bennett

  Stupid, Worry, Brain

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• We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.

  Paul Gruchow

  Believe, Animal, Years

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• The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid.

  Bill Maher

  Stupid, People, Politician

  Source: www.tucsonweekly.com

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• I have often asked myself if I would have worked as hard if I was as ill as Steve Jobs. My answer is that my wife most likely would not have let me work, and I would have stayed home. But I am not Steve Jobs.

  Terry Gou

  Jobs, Home, Wife

  "Foxconn CEO: I Wouldn't Be Working As Hard As Steve Jobs If I Was As Ill As Him" by Paul Denlinger, www.businessinsider.com. June 09, 2011.

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• The place that does
  Contain my books, the best companions, is
  To me a glorious court, where hourly I
  Converse with the, old sages and philosophers;
  And sometimes for variety, I confer
  With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
  Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
  Unto a strict account; and in my fancy,
  Deface their ill-plac'd statutes.

  John William Fletcher

  Kings, Book, Victory

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• It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

  Louise Colet

  Half

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• Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.

  William Burkitt

  Men, Faces, Speak

  William Burkitt (1840). “The poor man's help, and young man's guide”, p.13

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