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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding. – Zora Neale Hurston

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

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. – John Barrymore

Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display? – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. – Stephen King

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. – Channing Pollock

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. – Karl Marx

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. – Edsger Dijkstra

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. – Thomas Carlyle

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice. – Fiona Apple

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. – Thomas Carlyle

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. – Jackie Kennedy

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it. – Willie Aames

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love. – Red Cloud

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. – George Orwell

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). – Lewis Carroll

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Active Evil is better than Passive Good. – William Blake