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Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills. — © Francois Fenelon

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

Francois Fenelon

Francois Fenelon

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Francois Fenelon

Francois Fenelon
French - Priest
August 6, 1651 - January 7, 1715

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills.

Blanche Willis Howard

Blanche Willis Howard

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Abraham Cowley

Abraham Cowley

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

Ovid

Ovid

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

Ovid

Ovid

The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Joseph B. Wirthlin

There is no cure for the ills of the world except the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Joseph Fielding Smith

Joseph Fielding Smith

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

Abraham Cowley

Abraham Cowley

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase - the pursuit of happiness - is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Malcolm Muggeridge

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Malcolm Muggeridge

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