“ The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! ”
- George Canning- Copy
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“ Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. ”
- Katharine Whitehorn- Copy
- 249
“ Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 1.9K
“ It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much. ”
- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa- Copy
- 162
“ Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
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“ Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am. ”
- Theodore Parker- Copy
- 2K
“ Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 262
“ Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes? ”
- Robert Half- Copy
- 810
“ Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good morals; it can destroy bad principles and re-create good ones; it can lift men to angelship. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3K
“ What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows — it must grow; nothing can prevent it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The Cardinal is at his wit's end — it is true that he had not far to go. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 2K
“ You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion. ”
- Colley Cibber- Copy
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“ K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. ”
- Harlan Ellison- Copy
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“ For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise? ”
- Bruce Burton- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. ”
- Stephen King- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The theatre is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are." Yet most dramatists employ it to say: "This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.". ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
- 105
“ The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: "Never hurt anybody.". ”
- Denis Breeze- Copy
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