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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly everyaction and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.
L'homme n'est ni bon ni me chant, il na|"t avec des instincts et des aptitudes. Manisneithergoodnorevil; heisbornwith instinctsand abilities.
Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalite ; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always a product of art.
It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.
Only reasoncan convinceus ofthosethreefundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
And God saw that it was good.
And the serpent said unto the woman,Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that heshould repent: hathhesaid, and shall henot do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Theyare all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
O taste and see that the L isgood: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.O fear the L, ye his saints: for there isno wanttothemthat fear him.The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the L shall not want any good thing.
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
To will is present with me; but how to perform that which isgood I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
And we know that all things work together for good to 120 them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Prove all things; hold fast that which isgood.
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
He who would do good to another man must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
But theyare all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.
It's a mighty pleasant thing to die like this, once in a way, and hear all the good things said about ye afther you're dead and gone, when they can do you no good. 146
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
They love the Good; they worshipTruth; They laugh uproariously in youth; (And when they get to feeling old, They up and shoot themselves, I'm told).
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice.
It is the gloryand good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine, at least.
Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
OThou that in the heavens does dwell! Wha, as it pleases best Thysel, Sends ane to heaven, an'ten to hell, A'forThy glory, And no for ony gude or ill They've done beforeThee!
O ye wha are sae guid yoursel, Sae pious and sae holy, Ye've nought to do but mark and tell Your Neebours'fauts an folly!
Salus populi suprema est lex. The good of the people is the chief law.
To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to think that the world isgood. It is enough to believe that there is no impossibility of it being made so.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
When I'm good, I can be really goodI can do things even I didn't think I could do. I would say my worst is still not so bad, either.
He wos wery good to me, he wos!
To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
For present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
When it soundsgood, it is good.
All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
My generation of Canadians grew up believing that, if we were very good or very smart, or both, we would someday graduate from Canada.
I have covered boxing, promoted boxing, watched it, thought about it, and after long reflection I cannot find a single thing that isgood about it either from the point of view of participant or spectator.
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.
What do I thinkof Western civilization? I think that it would be a good idea.
My dear chap! Good isn't the word!
It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks.
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how farbut far above the great.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show toany fellow-creature, let me doit nowfor Ishall not pass this way again.
Self-respectcomes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments in quiet places when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the
What's the good of a home if you are never in it?
Good, but not religious-good.
There isnothing good tobe had inthe country, or ifthere is, they will not let you have it.
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
About morals,I know only that what ismoral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight.You have to do that cold.But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. 394
The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Hay hombres que de su ciencia tienen la cabeza llena; hay sabios de todas menas, mas digo, sin ser muy ducho: es mejor que aprender mucho el aprender cosas buenas. There are some men who have their heads full up with the things they know. Wise men come in all sizes, but I don't need so much sense to say
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man,
Es ist die letzte territoriale Forderung, die ich Europa zu stellen habe, aber es ist die Forderung, von der ich nicht abgehe, und die ich, so Gott will, erfu« llen werde. It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is the claim from which I will not recede and which,God-willing, I will make good.
It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.
It's good to talk.
That isindeed verygood.Ishall havetorepeatthatonthe Golden Floor!
The devil Bush and his treacherous gang, with criminal Zionism, havebegunthegreat showdown, themotherof all battles between good and evil.
You're good, you're real good.
How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make every one wretched for 24 hours.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Pray inwardly, even though you do not enjoy it. It does good though you feel nothing, even though you think you are doing nothing.
That was very good of him.
Ye wake in a corner and stay there hoping yer body will disappear, the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can ye no do it; the words filling yer head: then the other words; there's something far far wrong; ye're no a good man, ye're just no a good man.
If a man in truth will the Good then he must be willing to suffer for the Good.
Before youtell someonehowgood youare, you musttell him how bad you used to be.
Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see.
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad, she was horrid.
If youcan't saysomething good about someone, sit right here by me.
She said she always believed in the old adage,'Leave them while you're looking good.'
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable.The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Let us be frank about it. Most of our people have never had it so good.Go around the country, go to the industrial towns, go to the farms, and you will see a state of prosperity such as we have never had in my lifetimenor indeed ever in the history of this country.
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms, although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacl'd, while heav'n sees good.
Asgood almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a Comus, A Mask man kills a reasonable creature,God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.
As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
To be weak is miserable Doing or suffering, but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight.
If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil.
Where there is then no good For which to strive, no strife can grow up there From faction; for none sure will claim in hell Prece dence, none, whose portion is so small Of present pain, that with ambitious mind Will covet more.
Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste; And all amid them stood theTree of Life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death theTree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge.
O goodness infinite, goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness!
Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
Today musicians listen to see who makes the most money on a style, and then they set to copying him. And they don't copy the ones that are beautiful, creative and good.
It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury.
What istheuse offighting for thevoteif we donot havea country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved womento enduretorture inprison for thenational good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.
A good honest and painful sermon.
Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony, not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear,'Whatever Is, is.'
Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th'eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
Si l'on recherche en quoi consiste pre cise ment le plus grand bien de tous, qui doit e" tre le fin de tout syste' me de le gislation, on trouvera qu'il se re duit a' ces deux objets principaux, la liberte et l'e galite . If we enquire wherein lies precisely the greatest good of all, which ought to be the goal of every system of law, we shall find that it comes down to two main objects, freedom and equality.
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answerscan, asa rule, be knowntobetrue, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination, and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.
Esse quam videri bonus malebat. He preferred to be good, rather than seem good.
L'art pour l'art est un vain mot. L'art pour le vrai, l'art pour le beau et le bon, voila' la religion que je cherche. Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I search for.
Ist es an und fu« r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu« r einUbel zu « halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.
Jogging isvery beneficial.It'sverygood for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.
Be a good manbe virtuousbe religiousbe a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supportshiskingon loyal principles and cuts off hishead on republican principles.
The only way forawomantoprovideforherselfdecently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent: To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory,Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life,Joy, Empire and Victory.
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination; and poetryadministers to the effect byacting on the cause.
Every individualintends only his own gain, and he is in this as in many other cases led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the publick good.
Oh I am a cat that likes to Gallop about doing good.
A Good Time was Had By All.
There is only one good, knowledge, and only one evil, ignorance.
'And everybody praised the Duke, Who this great fight did win.' 'But what good came of it at last?' Quoth little Peterkin. 'Why that I cannot tell,'said he, 'But 'twas a famous victory.'
Nihil nos conari, velle, appetere, neque cupere, quia id bonum esse judicamus; sed contra, nos propterea aliquid bonum esse judicare, quia id conamur, volumus, appetimus, atque cupimus. We endeavour, wish, desire, or long for nothing because we deem it good; but on the other hand, we deem a thing good because we endeavour, wish for, desire, or long for it.
Summum Mentis bonum est Dei cognitio, et summa Mentis virtus Deum cognoscere. The greatest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the greatest virtue of the mind is to know God.
In vita itaque apprime utile est, intellectum seu Rationem, quantum possumus, perficere, et in hoc uno summa hominis felicitas seu beatitudo consistit; quippe beatitudo nihil aliud est, quam ipsa animi acquiescentia quae ex Dei intuitiva cognitione oritur. It is therefore extrememly useful in life to perfect as much as we can the intellect or reason, and of this alone doesthegreatest happiness or blessedness of man exist: for blessedness is nothing else than satisfaction of mind which arises from the intuitive knowledge of God.
You should only read what istruly good or what isfrankly bad.
Technology, while adding daily to our physical ease, throws dailyanother loop of fine wire around our souls. It contributes hugely to our mobility, which we must not confuse with freedom. The extensions of our senses, which we find so fascinating, are not adding to the discrimination of our minds, since we need increasingly to take the reading of a needle on a dial to discover whether we think something isgood or bad, or right or wrong.
To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel.Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
But we grow old, Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Through all the circle of the golden year.
For good ye are and bad, and like to coins, Some true, some light, but every one of you Stamped with the image of the King.
France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.
The Red Cow was very respectable, shealways behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What. To her a thing was either black or whitethere was no question of it being grey or perhaps pink. People were good or they were badthere was nothing in between. Dandelions were either sweet or sourthere were never any moderately nice ones.
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you much at your own reckoning.
We cannot have heroes to dine with us. There are none. And were those heroes to be had, we should not like themthe persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, becausetheyare so good.
The difference between a fast bowler and a good fast bowler is not extra muscle but extra brains.
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. The best is the enemy of the good.
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can To all the people you can As long as ever you can.
When I'mgood I'm very verygood, but when I'm bad I'm better.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good.Butit is better to be good than to be ugly.
Anybody can be good in the country.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is a struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world standsmoment by moment on the razor-edge ofdangerand must be fought forwhether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect. Enough of science and of art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.
My whole life have I lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good.
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