Good Man Quotes - Page 33

• I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Fall, Men, Self

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 21, 1895.

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• The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

  Aristotle

  Men, Needs, Citizens

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.84, Aristotle

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• Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Men, People, Littles

  Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.102, New Directions Publishing

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• I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Reading, Use, Language

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men, Secret, Management

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.257, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The love of wine is a good man's failing.

  Aristophanes

  Wine, Men, Failing

  Aristophanes (2004). “The Wasps (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.8, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

  Saint Basil

  Men, Challenges, Trouble

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• Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Men, Circles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.128

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• Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.

  W. C. Fields

  Grateful, Forever, Drink

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• Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Courage, Patriotic, Men

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• Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Army, Feelings, Technique

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• Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Kindness, Men, Service Culture

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.333, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by virtue: The worst men always conspiring against them, they must fall, if the best have not power to preserve them. . . . [and] unless they be preserved in a great measure free from vices . . . .

  Algernon Sidney

  Wise, Fall, Men

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• The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Wise, Teaching

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• Dressing well is a form of good manners.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Dressing Up, Monday Morning

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• No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Weakness, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.648, Princeton University Press

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• What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Men, Land

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.79, Vintage

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• The desire to know is natural to good men.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Desire, Natural

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• Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

  William Howard Taft

  Golf, Men, Self

  Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Men, Doe

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• In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Kings, Betrayal, Men

  'Hansard' 7 February 1828, col. 131

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• Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Air, Space, Long

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• When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life Changing, Men, Evil

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• Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Art, Food, Wine

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• What makes a good man?

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Men

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