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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Trials
Robert Southey

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Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Spanish Proverb

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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Mind
Edmund Spenser

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
Music
Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Service
Germaine De Stael

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Unhurt people are not much good in the world.
People
Enid Starkie

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.
Self-love
Jake Steinfeld

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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
Skill
Casey Stengel

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The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
Approval
Casey Stengel

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Books - Reading
Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Action
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
Marriage
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
Failure
Robert Louis Stevenson

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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Action
Robert Louis Stevenson

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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Tragedies
Tom Stoppard

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Music
Igor Stravinsky

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If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
Hell
William A. Sunday

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Heart
Bertha Von Suttner

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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Jonathan Swift

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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Enemies
Jonathan Swift

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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
Scholars and Scholarship
J. M. Synge

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In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
Theater
J. M. Synge

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He who spares the bad injures the good.
Justice
Publilius Syrus

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It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Caution
Publilius Syrus

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It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
Integrity
Publilius Syrus

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun