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- Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.
- Author Unknown
- Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
- Stanilaus
- If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetousness.
- H. L. Wayland
- Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.
- South
- If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil.
- Mole
- A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
- There is a good side to every situation.
- David Schwartz
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