“He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.”
Source: The Winter Rose
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Dean Koontz book The Darkest Evening of the Year
Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.”
Dylan Thomas book Under Milk Wood
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Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Variant: .. the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one.”
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist
Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects (1856) Lecture IV : Portrait Gallery
Miscellany
Context: The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.
