Good Man Quotes - Page 14

• Who am I?” he whispered. “For years I pretended I was other than I was, and then I gloried that I might return to the truth of myself, only to find there is no truth to return to. I was an ordinary child, and then I was a not very good man, and now I do not know how to be either of those things any longer. I do not know what I am, and when Jem is gone, there will be no one to show me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Men, Years

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Whole, Aspire

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• A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Men, Lucky, Said

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• As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Doors, Heavy

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1061, Dell

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• It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Men, Hands

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• The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

  Hugh Massingberd

  Love, Life, Family

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• The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Encouragement, Spirit

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• All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

  Philip James Bailey

  Race, Goodness, Mankind

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.13

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• If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

  Matthew Henry

  Sweet, Men, Mind

  Matthew Henry (1866). “An Exposition of the Book of Psalms: With Practical Remarks and Observations”, p.352

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• My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

  Sidney Poitier

  Dad, Father, Men

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• A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Ordinary, Literature

  "The Ministry of Fear". Book by Graham Greene. Book 1, Chapter 7, Section 1, 1943.

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• A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.

  Mae West

  Men, Hard

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• Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.

  Barbara Walters

  Party, People, House

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• Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

  Edward Young

  Men, Guilt, Shelter

  Edward Young (1813). “The poetical works of Edward Young. Collated with the best eds.: by T. Park”

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• It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

  Roger Ascham

  Real, Wealth, Manners

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• what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, World, Littles

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

  Clarence Darrow

  Good Friend, Men, Law

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.99, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Journey, Way

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3199, Delphi Classics

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• Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

  Ben Jonson

  Death, Men, Wicked

  Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.54

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• A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Good Woman, Doe

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mother, Giving, Lord

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.93, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

  Barack Obama

  Nsa, Community, Valleys

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• There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Goodness, Victim

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• The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Real, Men, Two

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• Determination is number one! You have to be trained physically. You have to have a good mental attitude - wanting it and enjoying the thrill of going fast. There is a certain level of aggression with competing at professional racing level but you have to control it as it is a high reaction, fast sport.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Determination, Attitude

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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