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• Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

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• Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hatred, Quality, Goodness

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• A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Pride, Giving

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• Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

  Sophocles

  Life, Men, Goal

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.173, Wildside Press LLC

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• I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth.

  Thucydides

  Fall, Men, Brave

  Thucydides, Ruth Finnegan “History of Greece”, Lulu.com

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• Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Real, Doctors

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• It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Christian, Earth

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• However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Men, Balance, Different

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• The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Men, Office, Done

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• Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports
  this view.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Children, Mean, Pride

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.130, Take Root Media

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• Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.

  Norman Podhoretz

  Class, Would Be, Culture

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

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• Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.

  David Korten

  Kings, Luxury, Long

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• Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.

  Pope Paul VI

  Men, Creating, Risk

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• It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very ill and I was taking care of him and my mother, and he was extremely depressed, virtually lost the will to live, and I realized my main job was cheering him up to save his life.

  John Lithgow

  Mother, Jobs, Cheer

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.

  Dalai Lama

  Hatred, Feelings, Forgiving

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.

  Dorianne Laux

  Children, Fall, Grateful

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• I don't meet many people that are evil. I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.

  Richard Gere

  Dark, Thinking, People

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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• When you spend as much time as I do with wounded warriors and their families, and terminally ill kids and their families, you are humbled and powerfully inspired by their courage and positive energy to live your life to the absolute best you can everyday. It will wake you up really fast to never stop believing.

  Ted Nugent

  Believe, Kids, Warrior

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• I'm a very good decision maker because I have core set of principles and so I can make decisions. Decisions can be very hard and you have to wrestle with them, but I'm able to get all the data on the table and figure out what would be the best decision because decisions mean ill for some people and mean positives for others.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mean, Data, People

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• I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!

  John Hodgman

  Children, Wish, Monsters

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.

  David E. Sorensen

  Pain, Children, Heart

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• True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Mean, Ill Will

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.160, A&C Black

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• The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Lying, Evil

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.226, Tara Publishing

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• You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us and make us ready for glory.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Father, Cutting, Perfect

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• Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Scripture, Devotion

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