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• Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Men, Names

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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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• I would like Taeyeon unnie to be the leader, but like Hyoyeon unnie said, I think shes carrying a lot of burdens by being in that position. So, Ill just leave it to the unnies.

  Seohyun

  Thinking, Leader, Snsd

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• It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Understanding, Blame, Praise

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.67, Lulu.com

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• See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become A base adult'ress, whose false births do fill The earth with monsters, monsters that do roam And rage about, and make a trade to kill: Now glutt'ny paunches, and avarice a pawn; Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn.

  Francis Quarles

  Pride, Envy, Sloth

  Francis Quarles, Joseph Swain, Edmund Evans (1861). “Quarles' Emblems”, p.12

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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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• Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.

  Edmund Waller

  Good Night, Lying, Light

  1645 'To One Married to an Old Man'.

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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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• The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved." Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Race, People, Needs

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2010). “The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)”, p.47, CUA Press

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• It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Talent, Figures

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Epistolary correspondence. Letters from September 1725 to May 1732”, p.373

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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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• The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  School, Boys, Play

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “The Politicians”

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• For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fate, Ill Will, Endurance

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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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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• How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!

  John Armstrong

  Mountain, Vigor, Sun

  John Armstrong, John Aikin, William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem, in Four Books”, p.46

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• I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results--or ill.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Wings, World, Body

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.563, Delphi Classics

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• If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

  George Herbert

  Pain, Joy, Deeds

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.18

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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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• 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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• It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Love Is, Mind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Michael O'Neill (1985). “Fair-copy Manuscripts of Shelley's Poems in European and American Libraries: Including Percy Bysshe Shelley's Holographs and Copies in the Hand of Mary W. Shelley, Located in the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Switzerland, as Well as the Holograph Draft of Keats's Robin Hood”, p.219, Taylor & Francis

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• Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

  William Carlos Williams

  Perfect, Machines, May

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!

  Edmond Rostand

  Love You, Lasts, Fairy Tale

  Edmond Rostand (2015). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.178, Sheba Blake Publishing

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