Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 2501 till 2520 of 2950.

  • 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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  • William Shakespeare To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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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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  • Benjamin Franklin To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William Shakespeare To be, or not to be; that is the question;
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
    Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
    And by opposing, end them.
    Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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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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