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  • Bertrand Russell Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • John Tillotson Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Anne Seward Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • Eliza Cook Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis ''good works'' make the man.
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Mark Twain Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Tis good nature only wins the heart It moulds the body to an easy grace And brightens every feature of the face; It smoothes th' unpolish'd tongue with eloquence And adds persuasion to the finest sense.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Augustus Hare To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Alexander Calder To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
    Alexander Calder
    American sculptor (0 - 1976)
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  • Albert Camus To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Richard Whately To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.''
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Wendell Phillips To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Sophocles To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Mark Twain To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gail Sheehy To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Ernest Renan To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Plutarch To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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