Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Henry Ward Beecher Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • W.S. Landor Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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  • Desmond Tutu Goodness is stronger than evil; love is stronger than hate; light is stronger than darkness; life is stronger than death; victory is ours through him who loved us.
    Speech 23-10-1998
    Desmond Tutu
    South African cleric and human rights activist (1931 - 2021)
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  • Cal Thomas Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • George Herbert Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Ann Veneman Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Alexander Graham Bell Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Heinrich Heine Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Aldous Huxley Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Fielding Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Victor Hugo Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • James Russell Lowell Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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