#good man

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#command #discreet #faithful #good #good manners

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#about #even #family #family man #funny

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#good managers #guys #i #lot #managers

Good managers have a bias for action. ↗

— Tom Peters

#bias #good #good managers #managers

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures. ↗

— John Woolman

#creatures #good #good man #great #his

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

#bad #bad one #between #cause #choice

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. ↗

— William James

#aim #college #college education #education #good