974 private quotes tagged good

“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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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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“It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.” — Thomas Paine

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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 good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole d--n life and one is as good as the other.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” — Mark Twain

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

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“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“A good garden may have some weeds.” — Thomas Fuller

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

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“You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.” — Dr. Seuss

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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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“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.” — Plato

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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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“He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The best is the enemy of the good.” — Voltaire

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“A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.” — Henry Ford

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“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” — Samuel Johnson

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“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.” — Voltaire

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“The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.” — Aristotle

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