Quotes 101 till 120 of 124.
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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder.
Its narrow measure spans
Rue for eternity, and sorrow
Not mine, but man's.
This is for all ill-treated fellows
Unborn and unbegot,
For them to read when they're in trouble
And I am not.Source: More Poems (1936) -
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
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Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
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We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.
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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
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Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
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