Quotes with ill-desert

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  • Henry Ward Beecher The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Noam Chomsky The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Arthur Koestler The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Sigmund Freud The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • William Shakespeare The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Sir William Temple 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.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • James Truslow Adams 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.
    James Truslow Adams
    American writer and historian (1878 - 1949)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan 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.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Francis Bacon They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Robert Frost They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars - on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • A. E. Housman 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.
    More Poems (1936)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Plautus To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Aeschylus To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Aristotle 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.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Matthew Fox 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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