Good Man Quotes - Page 40

• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

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• People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

  Herman Melville

  Knowledge, Names, Knowing

  Herman Melville (1850). “Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-gentleman, in the Merchant Service”, p.89

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• Many a good man I have seen go under.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Defeat

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• For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

  Socrates

  Men, Gentleman, Causes

  "The Dialogues of Plato, Vol. 1". Book by Plato, Clarendon Press, p. 148, 1871.

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• I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

  Samuel Beckett

  Men, Goodness, Bottom

  "Malone Dies". Book by Samuel Beckett, 1951.

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• Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

  Max Muller

  Men, Long, Evil

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

  C. D. Broad

  Spiritual, Healthy, Hunger And Thirst

  C. D. Broad (2000). “Five Types of Ethical Theory”, p.24, Psychology Press

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• Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

  John W. Gardner

  Men, Society, Saws

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.12, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil altogether subside, are neutralized by subsequent generations, absorbed by the incessant movements of future ages. But the discoveries of great men never leave us; they are immortal; they contain those eternal truths which survive the shock of empires, outlive the struggles of rival creeds, and witness the decay of successive religions.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Struggle, Science, Men

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.208

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• Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted to show a good man struggling to reconcile his commitment to the community with the political agenda of his church. He does not see that as a dilemma, but I do.

  Lanford Wilson

  Christian, Struggle, Commitment

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• Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Men, Wicked

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• Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Science, Doctors, Two

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly. I understand that an effort is under way to establish a national league of professional volleyball teams, and if you have ever seen the great women's teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba and East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be.

  James A. Michener

  Sports, Volleyball, Fun

  "Sports in America".

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• Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Evil, Succeed

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• If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

  Aristotle

  Men, Soul, Excellence

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1098a,

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• I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

  Claude Monet

  Mistake, Despair, Fixing

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mother, Children, Humility

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• Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to another, Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such ,a thing as the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.

  Guru Nanak

  Daughter, Men, Done

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• A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

  Brigham Young

  Greatness, Men, Church

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.120

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Book, Writing, Men

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• You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Law, Lawyer

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.71, HarperCollins UK

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• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.

  Blaise Pascal

  Hate, Men, Wish

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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