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  • Albert Schweitzer Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
    As quoted in Champlains Dream (2008)
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Francis Quarles Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Machiavelli Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Bertrand Russell Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Walt Whitman Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Cameron Mackintosh Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
    Cameron Mackintosh
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Samuel Butler He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Winston Churchill He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • William Shakespeare He is not great who is not greatly good.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Dickens He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • William Penn He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Seneca He that does good to another does good also to himself.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Francis Bacon 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
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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