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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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• If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

  John Dryden

  Art, Vices, Slave

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• A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

  Juvenal

  Heirs, Wealth, Profit

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• Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

  Juvenal

  Children, Powerful, Reason

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• An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.

  George Herbert

  Labourers

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.335

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• An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

  George Herbert

  Names, Wounds

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.229

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• Better to be blinde, then to see ill.

  George Herbert

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• By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

  George Herbert

  Doing Nothing

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.352

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• Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.

  George Herbert

  Morning, May, Bees

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.358

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• Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

  Robert Southey

  Religion, Unhappy, Dangerous

  Robert Southey, Thomas More (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes”, p.281

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• Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Heaven, Good Man

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.741

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• Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be.

  Epictetus

  Art, Hate, Conceited

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• The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

  Walter Savage Landor

  War, Ill Will, Religion

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “Works: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.533

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• A gallant man is above ill words.

  John Selden

  Men, Gallantry, Gallant

  John Selden (1856). “The table-talk of John Selden, with a biogr. preface and notes by S.W. Singer”, p.50

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• This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
  For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill,
  Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
  And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

  Sir John Davies

  Skills, Knowing, Ears

  Sir John Davies (1759). “The Original, Nature and Immortality of the Soul, a Poem. With an Introduction Concerning Human Knowledge ... The Fourth Edition, Corrected. With an Account of the Author's Life and Writings”, p.82

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• It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

  Edmund Burke

  Frustration, Men, Thinking

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.381, Penguin

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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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• A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

  Marya Mannes

  Sobriety, Musical, Passionate

  Marya Mannes (1948). “Message from a Stranger: A Novel”

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• Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

  Laurence Sterne

  Loss, Compassion, Sick

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”

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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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• The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.

  Augustine Birrell

  Wise, Views, Style

  Augustine Birrell (1923). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920”

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• There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart, Wind, Ill Will

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, p.532, Delphi Classics

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• Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.

  Jeremy Collier

  Sight, Envy, Wish

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• Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

  Sappho

  Death, Boon, Died

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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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