Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
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Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
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Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
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Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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.
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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
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Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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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.
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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.
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Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
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I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.
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I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.
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I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.
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I'll stutter step, then drop the shoulder, a little pump, a little Kobe Game 7 fade-away, and the hooks coming too. And Malcolm [Subban] knows, he's got an inch on me but he can't defend that. He knows that.
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
