974 private quotes tagged good

“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.” — Steve Jobs

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“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.” — George Carlin

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“When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.” — Nelson Mandela

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

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“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Necessity never made a good bargain.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.” — Albert Camus

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“It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“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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“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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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” — Aldous Huxley

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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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“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.” — Martin Luther

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“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.” — Richard Dawkins

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“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.” — Sun Tzu

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“Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.” — Saint Francis de Sales

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