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  • The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

    Positive   People   World  
  • I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me. But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.

    Teenage   Writing   Years  
  • If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.

    Science   Voice   Giving  
  • 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.

    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
  • Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

    Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.22
  • Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

  • Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

    Generosity   May   Casual  
    Laurence Sterne (1905). “A Sentimental Journey”
  • Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

    Self   Denial   Littles  
    Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.170, Oxford University Press
  • Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

    Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.645
  • Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

    Want   Fool   Honest  
    William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.109
  • Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

    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
  • The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

  • All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

    Michel de Montaigne (1800). “Essays, Selected from Montaigne: With a Sketch of the Life of the Author”, p.124
  • Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

  • Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

    Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.7, Modern Library
  • There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by good laws and good examples nourished and trained up in; so that civil places and trust and credit need not be monopolized into the hands of church members (who sometimes are not fitted for public office), while all others are deprived and despoiled of their natural and civil rights and liberties.

    Honesty   Men   Hands  
    Source: www.libertymagazine.org
  • In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.215, Penguin
  • Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

    Kindness   Heart   Men  
    Thomas More (2009). “Utopia”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.

    Mother   Children   Sleep  
  • Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

    Wisdom   Nature   Autumn  
    Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898
  • 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 (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.287, Library of Alexandria
  • Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.

    Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.1, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

    Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.22
  • Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that provide the master keys to heaven. When we identify and work to transform our self-centered qualities and crooked characteristics, the key turns and the gates unlock. Blessings and good fortune are now free to rain down upon us.

    Prayer   Rain   Blessing  
  • The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right.

    Morning   Sleep   Night  
  • 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.

  • Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.

    "Boys will be boys" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.
  • God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

    Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.251
  • Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

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