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- A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
- Marilyn Vos Savant
- ...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it [Denmark] is a prison.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2
- Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
- Richard Bach
- As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
- Diogenes
- He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
- The Talmud
- Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
- I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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