"Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill."
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"But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred."
"Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."
"What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of."
"But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand."
"The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming."
"In the motive lies the good or ill."
"It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest."
"Ill-gotten gains work evil."
"The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed."
"Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together."
"Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune, Where there's no fear of greater ill to come."
"In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill."
"Never had ill workeman good tooles."
"The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. [The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.]"
"Every ill man hath his ill day."
"Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]"
"Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.]"
"There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken."
"Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill."