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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
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'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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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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