Good Nature Quotes - Page 2

• Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Origin Of Species, Species

  Charles Darwin, Duncan M. Porter, Frederick Burkhardt (2004). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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• La afabilidad, la dulzura, la ternura y una palabra que me gustaría devolver a su significado original de virtud, es decir, el buen carácter, son de uso diario; son el pan de la humanidad y el báculo de la vida.

  John Dryden

  Good Life, Mean, Use

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.185

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• Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

  William Shenstone

  Wine, Understanding, Church

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.44

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• Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Good Humor, Warm

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• How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beauty, Hands, Years

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• I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature; the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Soul, Attention

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.287, Library of Alexandria

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• Aquellos que examinan la Naturaleza del Hombre, abstrayéndose del Arte y la Educación, pueden observar, que lo que lo hace un Animal Sociable, no consiste en su deseo de Compañía, Buen carácter, Piedad, Afabilidad, y otras Gracias de un exterior justo; sino que sus Cualidades más viles y odiosas son los Logros más necesarios para capacitarlo para las Sociedades más grandes, y, según el Mundo, las más felices y florecientes.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Arte, Animal, Hombre

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.1, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Una gran bondad sin prudencia es una gran desgracia.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Prudence, Misfortunes

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.173, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.

  William Penn

  Truth, Men, Glory

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.852

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• Well the dog that is the most is the a Labrador retrievers because they tolerate kids tugging on them and things better than other dogs. They are a real good natured. They’re also real calm and sometimes when working with autistic children that’s probably more popular dog breed - now there are different ways to use service animals.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Children, Real

  Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.

  John Gregory

  Enemy, Talent, Dangerous

  Mrs. Chapone (Hester), John Gregory, Lady Sarah Pennington (1827). “Letters on the improvement of the mind: addressed to a lady, by Mrs. Chapone. A father's legacy to his daughters, by Dr. Gregory. A mother's advice to her absent daughters, with an additional letter, on the management and education of infant children, by Lady Pennington”, p.166

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• Soy quien soy, y creo que tengo un buen carácter, en general. Pero si alguien se aprovecha de esa buena naturaleza, entonces, ya sabes, no soy tan buen tipo.

  Tom Hanks

  Nice, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Tom Hanks: I'm not always a nice guy" by Tracy Smith, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2012.

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• La buena naturaleza es, de todas las cualidades morales, la que más necesita el mundo, y la buena naturaleza es el resultado de la facilidad y la seguridad, no de una vida de ardua lucha.

  Bertrand Russell

  Struggle, Quality, Needs

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.1, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

  Sydney Smith

  Army, Politeness, Good Sense

  Sydney Smith, Lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.459

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• Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  May, Natural, Politeness

  duc de François La Rochefoucauld, François La Rochefoucauld (duc de), King of Poland Stanisław, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.178

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• Algunas personas son todo calidad; se diría que no se componen más que de título y genealogía. El sello de la dignidad desfigura en ellos el carácter mismo de la humanidad y los transporta a tal grado de altivez que consideran inferior a sí mismos ejercer la buena naturaleza o los buenos modales.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Carácter, Ejercicio, Pensamiento

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• It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness.

  Richard Whately

  Annoyed, Important, Cheerful

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• A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Nature, Kindness, Men

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• Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Foundation, Breeding, Good Breeding

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• La buena crianza y la buena naturaleza nos inclinan más bien a ayudar y elevar a las personas hacia nosotros mismos, que a mortificarlas y deprimirlas, y, en verdad, nuestro propio interés privado concurre en ello, ya que nos está haciendo tantos amigos, en lugar de tantos enemigos.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Amigos, Deprimente, Gente

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Conde de Chesterfield (1855). "Las obras de Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author", p.199

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• Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Goodness, Turns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.415

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• Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

  Mason Cooley

  Nature, Gun, Power

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• Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be used because it may be a meanes to prevent strokes and blowes, especially in ingenuous and good natured children. [Blows are] the last remedy which a parent can use: a remedy which may doe good when nothing else can.

  William Gouge

  Children, Blow, Discipline

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• Nada estropea más la naturaleza humana que el falso celo. La buena naturaleza de un pagano es más semejante a Dios que el celo furioso de un cristiano.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Christian, Human Nature, Zeal

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.52

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• Hay una virtud moral, una fidelidad moral, capacidad y honestidad, en la que otros hombres, además de los miembros de la Iglesia, son, por buena naturaleza y educación, por buenas leyes y buenos ejemplos nutridos y formados; de modo que los lugares civiles y la confianza y el crédito no necesitan ser monopolizados en manos de los miembros de la Iglesia (que a veces no son aptos para cargos públicos), mientras que todos los demás son privados y despojados de sus derechos y libertades naturales y civiles.

  Roger Williams

  Honesty, Men, Hands

  Fuente: www.libertymagazine.org

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