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• God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.

  Kenneth Rand

  Mirages, Faces, Life Is

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• A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy as a whole fall into ill-repute because of those among its devotees who have stumbled into wells, or who aimlessly pass their lives in whetting their faculties and then neglecting to use them.

  John Grier Hibben

  Philosophy, Fall, Use

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• Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Action, Wells

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• Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

  Percival Lowell

  Thinking, Cramming, Stimulants

  "Mars and its Canals". Book by Percival Lowell, Preface, 1906.

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• Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.

  Joey Comeau

  Rational, Wells, Mentally Ill

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• Macrobiotic living is the process of changing ourselves so that we can eat anything we like without fear of becoming ill; it enables us to live a joyful life during which we can achieve anything we choose.

  George Ohsawa

  Becoming, Joyful, Achieve

  "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 82, 1994.

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• Ill smoke anything anybody gives me, Im not particular.

  Peter Falk

  Giving, Give Me, Particular

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• The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.

  Samuel Beckett

  Cycling, Nasty, Turns

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Mercier and Camier”, p.52, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Doctrine

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• Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.

  Pierre Bayle

  Stars, Lying, Miscarriage

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• Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Children, Giving, Noble

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• Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

  Lucretius

  Brother, Hate, Atheism

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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• For decades now, [Fuller] Torrey has been warning America what would happen if the dangerously mentally ill were deinstitutionalized, and it's all come true. Today, the only place we can put mental patients is on MSNBC.

  Ann Coulter

  America, Warning, Today

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. November 2013.

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• My city too turnt up, Ill take a fine for that.

  Masai Ujiri

  Cities, Fine

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• Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Men, Knowing

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.621

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• I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep.

  Hattie Morahan

  Morning, Wall, Sleep

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• Im not sure Ill find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, its great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

  Francois Arnaud

  Forever, Acting, Roles

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• Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

  Martial

  Laughing

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• The only person Ill marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.

  Max Beesley

  Believe, Ego, Bigs

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• Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
  [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

  George Herbert

  Suffering, Doe

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• A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

  Jonathan Swift

  Romance, Ingredients, Degenerates

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.582

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• He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

  Horace

  Men, Speak, Failing

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• If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

  Agnes Repplier

  Loss, Ill Health, Anxiety

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• They first condemn that first advised the ill.

  John Dryden

  Advice, Firsts

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.98

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• Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

  John Dryden

  Men, Light, Heaven

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