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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
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God forgive us—but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovèd over all.
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God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
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Gold is good in its place but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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Good and bad men are less than they seem.
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Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric -
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
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Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
Source: Leviathan (1651) XIII -
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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