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• Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.

  Muriel Lester

  Prayer, Fifteen, Start The Day

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• Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Real, Men, Worship You

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• Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day or two.

  O.R. Melling

  Book, Two, Fiction

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• I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Sunset, Hollywood, Watches

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• Its either feast or famine, and thats the way its been for as long as I can remember. Ive spent my whole career thinking Ill never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Thinking, Careers, Long

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• Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Hate, Pet, Ugh

  "Five fashion minutes with... Joanne Froggatt". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 19, 2009.

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• The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love Is, Greek, Desire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Men, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• Against ill chances men are ever merry,
  But heaviness foreruns the good event.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Luck, Events

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. 81

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• Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Ease, Action

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”

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• If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

  Samuel Johnson

  Punishment, Adequate, Vices

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.267

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• Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Luxury, Rudeness, Spite

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• He that makes his bed ill, lies there.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Bed

  George Herbert (1862). “The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse”

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• He that marries late, marries ill.

  George Herbert

  Late

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.320

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• Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

  George Herbert

  Ells, Inches

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.298

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• Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.

  George Herbert

  Sticks

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.295

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• Ill vessels seldome miscarry.

  George Herbert

  Vessel

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.319

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• In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.

  George Herbert

  Hay, Straws

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.325

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• It costs more to doe ill then to doe well.
  [It costs more to do ill than to do well.]

  George Herbert

  Doe, Cost, Wells

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• It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.

  George Herbert

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

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• It's an ill councell that hath no escape.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.351

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• Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

  George Herbert

  Men, Numbers, Increase

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.301

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• Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Men, Looks

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.300

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• Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

  George Herbert

  May, Way

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.296

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