974 private quotes tagged good

“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.” — William Shakespeare

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“Acorns were good until bread was found.” — Francis Bacon

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“Good artists copy, great artists steal.” — Pablo Picasso

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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” — Anne Frank

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“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.” — Plato

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“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.” — Plato

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“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.” — George Orwell

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“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The good is the beautiful.” — Plato

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“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” — H. L. Mencken

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“How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.” — Anne Frank

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“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.” — Michelangelo

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“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.” — H. L. Mencken

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“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.” — Edmund Burke

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“The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” — Aldous Huxley

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“A good indignation brings out all one's powers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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