974 private quotes tagged good

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” — Walt Whitman

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“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.” — Will Rogers

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“Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.” — Dalai Lama

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“There is no such thing as a good tax.” — Winston Churchill

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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius

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“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.” — Thomas Paine

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“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.” — Aristotle

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“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.” — Dalai Lama

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“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.” — Socrates

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“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'” — Steven Wright

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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.” — Aldous Huxley

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“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.” — Stephen Hawking

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“To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.” — Mark Twain

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“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.” — Yogi Berra

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“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.” — Oscar Wilde

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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill

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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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