I Quotes
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“It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.”
“It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.”
“It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings”
Source: Last Tales
“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”
“It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2
“It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.”
“It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.”
“It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.”
Source: Gilead: A Novel
“It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.”
“It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.”
“It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.”
“It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.”
“It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.”
“It is a good thing to live long but it is much more important to make a difference in life by living a life of significance.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly.”
“It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.”
“It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.”
“It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.”
“It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“IT IS A GOOD THING WHEN HONESTY AND TRUTH AGREE.”
“It is a good time to remind ourselves that everything begins with a thought!”
Source: small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era
“It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.”
“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.”
“It is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.”
“It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations”
“It is a gown, but one such as I have never seen before. It is composed mostly of the cloth she showed me, but there are strips of other material running through it, some diaphanous and others satiny, some patterned in butterfly wings, some felted wool. Dangling threads hang from torn edges, and a few pieces of thin fabric have been wadded up to give them a new texture. The swirling patchwork she has created is at once tattered and beautiful.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“It is a gradual kind of strengthening. It takes a long time to see how the losses build you up, rather than strip you down and wear you away.”
Source: The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness: Three Lyrical Short Stories of Texas, Appalachia, and the Untamed American West
“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities.”
“It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.”
Source: Is He Popenjoy?: A Novel
“It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.”
Source: The Soul Winner
“It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism”
“It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past.”
“It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.”
Source: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
“It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.”
“It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.”
“It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.”
Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)
“It is a gray and a lonely place in which we live, all of us, swinging between desperation and emptiness, and all that makes it worthwhile is caring, is beauty. But if there were no opposite for beauty, or for pleasure, it would all turn to dust.”
Source: Paingod
“It is a gray day only because we have assumed the absence of color verses the masking of it.”
“It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.”
“It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.”
“It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.”
“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of his reason the shadows in which nature had enveloped him, rising above himself, soaring in his mind right up to the celestial regions, moving, like the sun, with giant strides through the vast extent of the universe, and, what is even greater and more difficult, returning to himself in order to study man there and learn of his nature, his obligations, and his end.”
Source: Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and Polemics
“It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.”
“It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.”
Source: Think on these things
“It is a great art to succeed in having your soul sanctified. A person can become a saint anywhere. He can become a saint in Omonia Square, if he wants. At your work, whatever it may be, you can become a saint through meekness, patience, and love. Make a new start every day, with new resolution, with enthusiasm and love, prayer and silence - not with anxiety so that you get a pain in the chest.”
“It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.”
Source: Wait for the Dawn
“It is a great blessing to wake each day and give thanks to God.”