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William Wordsworth

Poet

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Actions - Good

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Harper Lee

Novelist

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

Adulthood - Death - Good - Linguistics - Production

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Mother Teresa

Nun, Missionary

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Frustration - Good - Inspiration - Knowledge - Mother - Saints - Spiritual

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Giving - Good - Inspiration - Philosophy

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Ludwig von Mises

Composer, Economist, Philosopher

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Achievement - Apostle - Capitalism - Good - Propaganda - Speaking

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George Eliot

Critic, Author, Novelist

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

Age - Film - Good - Soul - Ugly

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Walt Whitman

Poet, Essayist, Journalist

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Good - Thanks

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

Giving - Good

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George S. Patton

Military Commander

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Compete - Cowardice - Fear - Good - Indulgence - Man

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Good - Man - Observation - Philosophy - Proof

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poet, Philosopher, Philosopher

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Achievement - Good - Nature - Power

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Louise Hay

Author

I now deserve love. romance, and joy - and all the good that Life has to offer me.

Good - Joy - Romance

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Scientist, Leader, Guru

Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.

Chemistry - Mindset - Refuse - Remedy - Waiting - Worrying

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Doing - Freedom - Man - Nothing - Sometimes

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Rene Descartes

Writer, Mathematician, Philosopher

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Fairness - Nothing - Sense - Thinking

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Good

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

Ability - Actions - Good - Knowledge - Oneself - Profit - Taking

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Denis Waitley

Motivational Speaker, Writer, Consultant

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Good - Rest - Worth

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Adam Smith

Author, Economist, Philosopher

To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.

Farming - Good - Hindrance - Judging - Sales - State - Urgency

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Richard P. Feynman

Scientist, Physicist, Physicist

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Difficulty - Good - Points - Possibility - Solution - Start

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