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To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew… — Samuel Johnson
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill! — Philip Massinger
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. — Henry Ward Beecher
Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well. — Seneca the Younger
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins… — Mahatma Gandhi
There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to… — Michel de Montaigne
Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic. — Annie Dillard
Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it. — Hans Arp
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and… — Miguel de Cervantes
Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. — Miguel de Cervantes
I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self… — D. H. Lawrence
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder;… — Jean de la Bruyere
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others — Benjamin Franklin
Fear to do ill, and you need fear else. — Benjamin Franklin
A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for… — Benjamin Franklin
This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments. — Joseph Addison
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part… — Joseph Addison
When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover. — Ambrose Bierce
A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would… — Victor Hugo

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