Ill Quotes

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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… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political… — John Stuart Mill
Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our… — Unknown Author
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. — Charles Dickens
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a… — Lewis H. Lapham
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite… — Immanuel Wallerstein
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for… — Lincoln Steffens
Vocabulary spills I'm ill. — Unknown Author
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… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of… — Alexander Hamilton
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws. — Alexander Hamilton
O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should… — William Shakespeare
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying… — Thomas Szasz
Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill! — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. — Jean de la Bruyere
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined… — William Penn
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative? — Thornton Wilder
If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me… — Epictetus
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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