Good Man Quotes - Page 13

• Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Soul, Devotion

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• The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Men, Wind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.36

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• There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  People, Religion, Holy

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• When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

  Honore de Balzac

  Fashion, Littles, Manners

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• Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Law, Desire

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.239

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• A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Wise, Mean, Men

  "The Imitation of Christ". Book by Thomas a Kempis, Book 1 Ch. 25; translation by George Stanhope, c. 1418.

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• Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Society, Manners

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1227, Delphi Classics

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• I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Should, Consequence

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• There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Night, Names

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.146

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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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• Amongst good men two men suffice.

  George Herbert

  Men, Two

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.319

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• Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting, you should be a Muslim the like of this. Let good deeds be your Kaaba and truth be your mentor. Your Kalma be your creed and prayer, God would then vindicate your honour.

  Guru Nanak

  Letting Go, Prayer, Compassion

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• The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sweet, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.615, Library of America

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• All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Evil, Liberty

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• In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Numbers, Musician, Berlin

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.331, Oxford University Press on Demand

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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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• Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

  Charles Simmons

  Littles, Energy, Attention

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• The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are not the limitations of his sympathies. Caring nothing for race, or color, he loves those who speak other languages and worship other gods. Between him and those who suffer, there is no impassable gulf. He salutes the world, and extends the hand of friendship to the human race. He does not bow before a provincial and patriotic god -- one who protects his tribe or nation, and abhors the rest of mankind.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Country, Patriotic

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1901). “Miscellany”

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• This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

  Clayton Christensen

  Mistake, Sometimes, Should

  Clayton Christensen (2015). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.4, Harvard Business Review Press

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• J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Past, Men, Evil

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• That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I'm the most interested in - like the questions that religion takes on. And I think that, for those of us that aren't religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.

  Benh Zeitlin

  Religious, Art, Men

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• I'm not gay, but I'm still the kind of guy where, even though you have no chance, they still want to hang around me so you can get a good mental image and jerk off to me later.

  Zach Braff

  Gay, Guy, Want

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• Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Men, Gowns

  Oliver Goldsmith (1806). “The Poetical Works”, p.31

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• The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Training, Important

  John Dewey (2015). “How We Think: Top American Authors”, p.12, 谷月社

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• It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.

  Gay Talese

  Marriage, Men, Married

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