- Nov 07, 2020
Good Quotes
Quotes on what it means to be good.
This page rounds up quotes using 'good' in different senses - the simplicity behind good mathematical solutions, the self-importance that can come with good intellectual work, and a wry line about baseball being kinder after retirement. Related pages include Good Luck Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture, is that there's way more good popular culture - because its standards of quality are more forgiving, because sobriety isn't its default mode, because there's so damn much of it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
- Feast
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good conscience is a continual feast.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
- Nov 07, 2020