Famous Quotes: Good

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
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At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
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You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
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My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
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I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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