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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
― Abraham Cahan
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
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After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant.
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Against ill chances men are ever merry, but heaviness foreruns the good event.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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Although she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sawyer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill.
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American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
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Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
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An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
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Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill living.
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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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But when mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill!Source: Rape of the Lock (1712) Canto III, 125 -
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
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