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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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• I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster,
  Nor long summer bide so late;
  And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster,
  For some things are ill to wait.

  Jean Ingelow

  Summer, Spring, Long

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.57

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• Gipsies, who every ill can cure,
  Except the ill of being poor
  Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell,
  Who can in hen-roost set a spell,
  Prepar'd by arts, to them best known
  To catch all feet except their own,
  Who, as to fortune, can unlock it,
  As easily as pick a pocket.

  Charles Churchill

  Art, Feet, Hens

  Charles Churchill, “The Ghost - Book I”

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• Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

  Frances Osborne

  Grease, Splendor, Made

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• If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

  Matthew Henry

  Sweet, Men, Good Man

  Matthew Henry (1866). “An Exposition of the Book of Psalms: With Practical Remarks and Observations”, p.352

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

  George Herbert

  Business

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• A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

  George Herbert

  Broken

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.316

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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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• conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the next chair and say, 'I'll have what she has.' That's all right for ordering at a restaurant - but not in a beauty parlor.

  Virginia Graham

  Hair, Looks, Next

  Virginia Graham (1967). “Don't blame the mirror”

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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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• 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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• An exile, ill in heart and frame,--
  A wanderer, weary of the way;--
  A stranger, without love's sweet claim
  On any heart, go where I may!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Sweet, Heart, May

  Frances Sargent Osgood (1838). “A wreath of wild flowers from New England”, p.134

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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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• Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

  Dorothea Dix

  Evil, Antidote

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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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• The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Want

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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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• 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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• [The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

  Pamela Frankau

  Ill Health, Interesting, Effort

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• You can fall ill with just a memory.

  Paolo Giordano

  Memories, Fall

  Paolo Giordano (2009). “The Solitude of Prime Numbers”, p.312, Random House

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

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Generosity, Meanness, Good Humor

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• Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Generosity, Sometimes, Conquer

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