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- Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
- John Viscount Morley
- Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
- There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila (1515 - 1582)
- There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
- Charles Buxton
- The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
- Benjamin Spock (1903 - )
- A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), "Contact"
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