974 private quotes tagged good

“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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“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” — Charles Darwin

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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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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.” — H. L. Mencken

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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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“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.” — Warren Buffett

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“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.” — Plato

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“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.” — Oscar Wilde

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“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” — Channing Pollock

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“Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.” — William Shakespeare

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“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.” — William Shakespeare

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“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.” — Oscar Wilde

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“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.” — William Shakespeare

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“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.” — Aldous Huxley

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“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.” — Oscar Wilde

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“There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.” — Muhammad Ali

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