Ill Quotes

• If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

  Napoleon Hill

  Writing, Water, Gossip

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'

  Epictetus

  Perfect, Trying, Doe

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• Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Fall, Beer

  Barnaby Rudge Ch. 7

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• Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Ill Will, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Ignorance, Stupid People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

  Charles Churchill

  Health, Science, Doctors

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• Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

  John Tillotson

  Relationship, People, Silence

  John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.195

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• To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Positive, Fear, Hate

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• Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Land, Decay

  1770 The Deserted Village, l.51-6.

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• A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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

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• For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

  Thomas More

  People, Suffering, Thieves

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.24, Bibliolis Books

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• Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

  Frank Dobson

  People, Smoking, Dying

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• Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Pride, Men

  The Deserted Village l. 51 (1770)

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• Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

  Plato

  Animal, Men, Savages

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• A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Taming, Shrews

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 143

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• Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Freedom, Thinking, Bird

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• If you don't have cancer, cherish life. If you do, cherish it even more

  Jim Stynes

  Life, Cancer, Disease

  Jim Stynes (2012). “My Journey”, p.280, Penguin UK

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• The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Optimistic, Night, Negativity

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• Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

  Miller Williams

  War, Eye, Compassion

  Miller Williams (1997). “The Ways We Touch: Poems”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

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• I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Sight, Scotland, People

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• When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Moving, Heart

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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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• This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

  F. L. Lucas

  Passion, Null, Done

  F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, Harriman House Limited

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• Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.

  Robert Emmet

  Heart, Thinking, Calumny Is

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