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Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
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Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
Leviathan (1651) XIII -
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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Great men by small means oft are overthrown.
Hesperides (1648) Loss From The Least -
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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