Conceal thy domestic ills. [ Thales ]

The soul too soft its ills to bear.
Has left our mortal hemisphere.
And sought in better world the meed
To blameless life by heaven decreed. [ Scott ]

He who sings frightens away his ills. [ Cervantes ]

A soul exasperated in ills, falls out
With everything, its friend, itself. [ Addison ]

Other men's ills are slightly regarded. [ Proverb ]

Patience, sovereign over transmuted ills. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Guards from outward harms are sent;
Ills from within thy reason must prevent. [ John Dryden ]

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

We rise by things that are 'neath our feet,
By what we have mastered of good and gain,
By the pride deposed, and passion slain,
And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

Sorrow for past ills, doth restore frail man
To his first innocence. [ Nabbs ]

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them. [ Sir Henry Taylor ]

Death rather frees us from ills than robs us of our goods. [ Proverb ]

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood. [ Moliere ]

Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Life is not the supreme good; but of all earthly ills the chief is guilt. [ Schiller ]

Fame at its best is but a poor compensation for all the ills of existence. [ Mrs. Oliphant ]

Dreading that climax of all human ills, The inflammation of his wreekly bills. [ Byron ]

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. [ Southey ]

Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use.
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! [ Cowper ]

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life. [ Cowper ]

Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest. [ Goethe ]

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. [ Dr. .Johnson ]

In experiencing the ills of nature, one despises death; in learning the evils of society, one despises life. [ Chamfort ]

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. [ Juvenal ]

We deem those happy who, from their experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without descanting on the burden. [ Juv ]

If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. [ Sir John Herschel ]