Good Man Quotes - Page 36

• The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Law, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.413

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• What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health if they possess the courage, humor, and flexibility of equilibrium between their rational and metaphoric minds.

  Bob Samples

  Children, Mean, Long

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• He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sorry, Men, Emotion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.501, Рипол Классик

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• The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Heaven, Mind

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• In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals.... The familybecame a special protected place, the repository of tender, pure, and generous feelings (embodied by the mother) and a bulwark and bastion against the raw, competitive, aggressive, and selfish world of commerce (embodied by the father).... In performing this protective task, the good family was to be as self-sufficient as the good man.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Mother, Selfish, Father

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• The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Men, Evil, Heaven

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• Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Joy, Strive

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• I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Challenges, Today

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

  Christopher Morley

  Teacher, Unhappy, Manners

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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• When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

  James Montgomery

  Men, Yield, Immortality

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1829). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: Complete in One Volume”

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• There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Jobs, Men

  Richard Hooker (1830). “The Ecclesiastical polity and other works of Richard Hooker: with his life by I. Walton. To which are added, the 'Christian letter' to mr. Hooker; and dr. Covel's 'Just and temperate defence' in reply to it [&c.] an intr. and notes by B. Hanbury”, p.67

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• With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the doctrine of Anabaptism, which for a time dominated the city of Munster. The Anabaptists repudiated all law since they held that good men will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit, who can not be bound by formulas. From this premise they arrive at communism and sexual promiscuity; they were therefore exterminated after a heroic resistance.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

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• The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.

  William O. Douglas

  Men, Challenges, Liberty

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• I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

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• Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Effort, Parent

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• It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to stifle discussion with good manners. Those who take religion, politics and sex seriously do not adhere to the general prohibition on discussing these topics. And they do not take offence when they are shown to be wrong.
  If you start to feel during a discussion, that you are not so much incorrect as insensitive, then you are probably dealing with a respectable bigot.

  Jamie Whyte

  Sex, Believe, Topics

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• What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Jobs, Intelligent

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• The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Men, Hands, Jail

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• A good man can never be the enemy of someone; if he did, he ain't a good man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Enemy, Ifs

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• As a good man, if you throw a stone to a bad person, you yourself become a bad man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Stones, Persons

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• Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Doors, Manners, Good Manners

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• To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Speak, Ill

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.

  Cindy McCain

  Wise, Husband, Men

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I feel like there's always somebody out there ready to take your man. If you got a good man, women are like you know their sleeping around.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Sleep, Men, Like You

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• The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Solemnity

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.59, David R. Godine Publisher

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