“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish’d by our virtues.” — William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well
Tag: good
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“It is too often forgotten, that better does not necessarily imply “good.”” — Richard Whately, “Thoughts and Apophthegms from the Writings of Archbishop Whately
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.” — William James
“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.” — William James, Letter to E.L. Godkin (24 December 1895) The Letters of William James, Vol. II
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“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.” — George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara