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• Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Power, Thinking, Focus

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• Kevin Reeves...proving an ill wind blows nobody no good.

  David Coleman

  Football, Blow, Wind

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• Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.

  John Locke

  Philosophy, Law, Political

  John Locke (2012). “A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction”, p.45, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

  Earl Wilson

  Ease, Ability, Poise

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• I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Kids, Play

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.68, Random House

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• We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Purpose, Fortune

  Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

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• For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.

  Clifford Stoll

  Information Is Power, Years, Community

  Clifford Stoll (1999). “High-tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian”, Doubleday Books

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• Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Egotism, Contempt

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• If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

  Confucius

  Ill Will, Action, Profit

  Confucius (1992). “Confucius: The Analects”

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• I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.

  Ringo Starr

  Giving, Stuff, Busy

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• When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.

  Jonathan Swift

  Cutting, Men, Clothes

  Jonathan Swift (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.73

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• I'm harmless. I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody. When people know you're that way, you can say stuff that the creepy guy at your office could never get away with.

  Adam Carolla

  Ill Will, Office, People

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

  Ben Jonson

  Use, Swelling

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• An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Voice, Ministry, Eloquent

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ill Will, Justice, Office

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• Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

  Winston Churchill

  Golf, Trying, Balls

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• Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at stake, when we try to distinguish the suffering of the ill from the suffering of the human.

  Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Book, Mean, Humble

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• A sick person is Allah's guest for as long as he is ill. Every day he is sick, God gives him countless rewards, as long as he says ' al hamdulillah', praise be
  to God, and does not fight it and complain. When God returns to him his health, he expiates his sins and gives him the status of the newly-born
  (completely pure and free of any sin). Illness is a mercy and a blessing.

  Kristiane Backer

  Fighting, Blessing, Long

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• I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Law, Would Be

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.88

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• How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

  Thomas Hardy

  Destiny, Heaven, Done

  Thomas Hardy (2006). “Return of the Native: Easyread Edition”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Fall, Passion

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• A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Sound, Guides

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Color Illustrated, Formatted for E-Readers”

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• Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Sitting Still, Feelings, Everyday

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• Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.

  Chester Middlebrook Pierce

  Children, Father, School

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• The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  War, Lying, Believe

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