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  • Plato When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • John F. Kennedy 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.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 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.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Marcel Proust 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.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Samuel Smiles 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.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Edmund Burke Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Tryon Edwards 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.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Eliot 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.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Eliot Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • William Shenstone A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Abraham Cahan Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Albert Bandura Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Bill Dedman 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.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Against ill chances men are ever merry, but heaviness foreruns the good event.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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