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• For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

  John Locke

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  John Locke (1854). “Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions”, p.108

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• Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

  John Webster

  Health, Gold, Hours

  John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.245

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• The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill nor good.

  William Watson

  Silence, Void, Minstrels

  William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”

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• Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.

  William Watson

  Wise, Character, Eye

  William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”

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• Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

  Richard Steele

  Modesty, Rage, Languish

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1774). “The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.106

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• An ill weed grows apace.

  George Chapman

  Weed, Grows

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.37

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• In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is eaten but no one sees an animal slaughtered; where scores of millions of cars, trains, elevators, and airplanes go their scheduled way and there is rarely a crash; where an immense production proceeds in orderly efficiency and the shelves are duly clears and nevertheless none of this come to joy or tragic grief or any other final good it is not surprising if there are explosions.

  Paul Goodman

  Grief, Airplane, Fighting

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.188, New York Review of Books

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• Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

  Voltaire

  Revenge, Book, Able

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

  David Coleman

  Football, Blow, Wind

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• What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.

  James Beard

  Mother, Strong, Children

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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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• None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.

  Ian Mcewan

  Healthy, Elements, Littles

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

  I. F. Stone

  Fashion, Men, Race

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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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• Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

  William S. Burroughs

  Crazy, Pits, Fool

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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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• Electronic brains may help us to use our heads but will not excuse us from that duty, and as to our hearts-cardiograms cannot diagnose what may be most ill about them, or confirm what may be best. The faithful woman and the versatile brave man, the wakeful intelligence open to inspiration or grace-these are still exemplary for our kind, as they always were and always will be.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Inspiration, Heart, Men

  Robert Fitzgerald, Penelope Laurans Fitzgerald (1993). “The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings”, p.185, New Directions Publishing

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• It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Christian, Charity, Being The Best

  Desiderius Erasmus (1733). “All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things”, p.532

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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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• The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

  John Milton

  Knowing, Tree, Grew

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.218-24.

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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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