It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.


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An ill deede cannot bring honour.
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From this amphibious ill-born mob beganThat vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.
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RUDYARD KIPLING
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
GEORGE HERBERT
Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.
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The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.
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The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
VLADIMIR ILICH ULIANOV
The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.
VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN
Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
HAROLD BRODKEY
An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment...
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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It is better to be completely ignorant than to be ill taught.
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.
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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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Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good Walks on crutches.
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This is an ill-omened year!
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Who speaks ill of others to you will speak ill of you to others
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It's an ill plan that cannot be changed
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Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
GEORGE HERBERT
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
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Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation?
THORNTON WILDER
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
THORNTON WILDER
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!
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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done.
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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past.
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Ill seed, ill weed
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Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.
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It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated pe...
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There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
GEORGE HERBERT
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
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The man who does ill must suffer ill.
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Better to be blinde, then to see ill.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to sa...
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I've never known Vern to be ill. I doubt if he ever took an aspirin.
BOB LEMON
I've never known Vern to be ill, ... I doubt if he ever took an aspirin.
BOB LEMON
Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
GEORGE HERBERT
Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
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People are interconnected and their health is too. We pay a lot of attention to other risk factors f...
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I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
EARL WILSON
To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.
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37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
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Every ill man hath his ill day.
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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Make deeds ill done! -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
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It would be ill of me to comment on a letter that I haven't seen.
TONY SANCHEZ
Never give succor to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
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Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most activ...
SALLY BRAMPTON
A little lett lets an ill workeman.
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An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.
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Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour ...
CHARLES FILLMORE
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VICTOR HUGO
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
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An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she.
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I think it was ill-timed, I think it was ill-conceived and I think it was a matter of poor judgment,
CHANNEL FOUR
It is ill catching hares with drums
PROVERB
DONT SAY ELECTION IT IS ILL-ACTION.
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Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
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Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
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Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
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Tony is ill, and he is not in any condition to be here today.
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
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'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word
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It's an ill councell that hath no escape.
GEORGE HERBERT
It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
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I am ill at these numbers
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You are ill, correct? The warmth and shivering had no other particular cause, did it?"
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