Quotes 81 till 100 of 117.
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Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
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That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am in love.
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That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
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That you can speak so well, and do so ill!
The Fatal Dowry (1632) 1, 1 -
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.
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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.
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
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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.More Poems (1936) -
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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