Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well."
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Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Without love we fall ill."
Pliny the Elder
Naturalist, Author
"Better do nothing than do ill."
Jerry Garcia
Musician
"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."
Sappho
Poet
"Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died."
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"We must love or we grow ill."
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"Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning."
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"Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously."
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"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully."
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"I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot."
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"Vocabulary spills I'm ill."
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"Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy."
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"Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it."
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"I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived."
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"For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally."
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"Luck is for the ill-prepared."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live."
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"He that hopes no good fears no ill."
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"Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed."
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"To me no profitable speech sounds ill."
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"Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery."
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"Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!"
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"Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill."
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"That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."
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