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• A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Littles, Satire

  John Tillotson (1819). “The wisdom of being religious”, p.185

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• There is no truth to the rumors that we hate each other. I have no ill feeling for [Britney Spears] and vice versa. I am proud of all the achievements she has made in her career, she is a very hard-working person. I have nothing but love for her.

  Christina Aguilera

  Hate, Hard Work, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The 'regular' school of medicine, as a body, has ignored and will ignore this science, because it discloses the fallacy of their favorite theories and practices and because it reveals unmistakably the direful results of chronic drug poisoning and ill-advised operations.

  Henry Lindlahr

  School, Practice, Medicine

  Henry Lindlahr (1974). “Natural Therapeutics: Iridiagnosis and Other Diagnostic Methods”, p.12, Health Research Books

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• If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

  Cornelia Parker

  Health, Suffering, Want

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• I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

  Mary Hart

  Things In Life, Tragedy, Facts

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• The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Children, Mean, Men

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  God, Men, Order

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• In men whom men condemn as ill
  I find so much of goodness still,
  In men whom men pronounce divine
  I find so much of sin and blot,
  I do not dare to draw a line
  Between the two, where God has not.

  Joaquin Miller

  Life And Love, Men, Two

  Joaquin Miller (1996). “Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History”, p.415, Heyday

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• Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

  Will Rogers

  Wine, Years, Long

  Will Rogers (1919). “Rogers-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition”

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• Nor bring, to see me cease to live,
  Some doctor full of phrase and fame,
  To shake his sapient head, and give
  The ill he cannot cure a name.

  Matthew Arnold

  Doctors, Names, Medicine

  'A Wish' (1867)

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• Great causes and little men go ill together.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Men, Together, Causes

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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• As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Ignorance, Bias And Prejudice

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.830, Best Books on

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• Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.

  Francis Kilvert

  Animal, Tourists, Offensive

  W. Plomer (ed.) 'Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert' (1938-40) 5 April 1870

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• Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Children, Disappointment, Grief

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• There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Judging, Deceived

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• Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

  John Henry Newman

  Together, Strife

  John Henry Newman (1869). “Callista: A Sketch of the Third Century”, p.330

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• The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Suffering, Doe

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.233

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• Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

  Aeschylus

  Night, Men, Thinking

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.341

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• The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Horse, Taken, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.369, Penguin

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• Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.

  Cesare Pavese

  People, Heaven, Way

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting--since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

  John Milton

  Light, Waiting, Darkness

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.47

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• O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Crowns, Errands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.

  John Armstrong

  Heart, Reason, Pleasure

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

  Epictetus

  Knives, Freedom Of Speech, Blunt

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Wish, Stanley, Has Beens

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