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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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  • Claudius To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
    Claudius
    Roman emperor (10 - 54)
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  • Hippocrates To do nothing is also a good remedy.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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  • Josh Billings To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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