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- A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
- John Tillotson (1630 - 1694)
- Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
- Ettiene De Grellet
- Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
- Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
- The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.
- Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968)
- You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir.
- Martin Routh
- A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
- William Paley
- He who spares the wicked injures the good.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
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