“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
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“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.”
“An overflow of good converts to bad.”
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
“Great and good are seldom the same man.”
“For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.”
“I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”
“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
“The good man is the friend of all living things.”
“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.”
“No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.”
“I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.”
“The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.”
“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.”
“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.”