974 private quotes tagged good

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.” — Abraham Lincoln

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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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“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.” — H. L. Mencken

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“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” — William Shakespeare

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“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.” — Sun Tzu

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“For good nurture and education, implant good constitutions.” — Plato

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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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“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” — Francis Bacon

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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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“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.” — Ray Bradbury

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“We will have to repent in this generation; not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.” — Plato

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“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.” — Aristotle

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“There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” — Plato

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