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Goodness |
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| "As far as possible without surrender be
on good terms with all persons." |
| -- Max Ehrmann (1872-1945),
American poet, lawyer |
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| "Whatever you are, be a good one." |
| -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), 16th US President |
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| "Goodness is easier to recognize than to
define." |
| -- Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-73), British-born
American writer |
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| "Waste no more time arguing about what a
good man should be. Be one." |
| -- Marcus Aelius Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman
emperor, philosopher |
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| "This time, like all times, is a very good
one, if we but know what to do with it." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American
writer |
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| "I keep my ideals, because in spite of
everything I still believe that people are really good at
heart." |
| -- Anne Frank (1929-45), German Jewish refugee |
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| "On the whole human beings want to be
good, but not to good and not quite all the time." |
| -- George Orwell (1903-50), British writer |
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| "Being entirely honest with oneself is a
good exercise." |
| -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian
physician |
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"When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them." |
| -- Euripides (485 BC - 406 BC) |
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| "The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me
with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make
a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a
system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only
for a herd of cattle." |
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--
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
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| "What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is
goodness." |
| -- Leo Tolstoy |
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| "A man cannot do good before he is made
good." |
| -- Martin Luther (1483-1546), German theologian |
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| "Better is the enemy of the good." |
| -- Volatire |
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| "None can love freedom heartily but good
men; the rest love not freedom, but license." |
| -- John Milton (1608-74), English poet |
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| "There are people whose defects become
them, and others who are ill served by their good qualities." |
| -- Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613-80), French
writer |
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| "To keep the body in good health is a
duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and
clear." |
| -- Buddha (563?-483? BC), Indian mystic,
founder of Buddhism |
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| "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." |
| -- Romans
xii. 21, The Bible |
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| "He who wishes to secure the good of
others has already secured his own." |
| -- Confucius (c. 551-479? BC), Chinese sage |
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| "The good man is the man who, no matter
how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better." |
| -- John Dewey (1859-1952), American
philosopher, educator |
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| "All good things which exist are the
fruits of originality." |
| -- John Stuart Mill (1806-73), British
philosopher |
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| "There is many a good man to be found
under a shabby hat." |
| -- Chinese Proverb |
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| "The world moves, and ideas that were once
good are not always good." |
| -- Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th US
President |
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| "It seemed the world was divided into good
and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones
seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." |
| -- Woody Allen |
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| “Goodness is the only investment that never
fails.” |
| -- Henry
David Thoreau |
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| “This
time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do
with it.” |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| "We rarely think that people have good
sense unless they agree with us." |
| -- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80),
French writer |
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| "A good man does not spy around for the
black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his
mark." |
| -- Marcus Aelius Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman
emperor, philosopher |
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| "Our business in this world is not to
succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits." |
| -- Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-94),
British writer |
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| "The reward of a thing well done is to
have done it." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| "The best portion of a good man's life is
his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of
love." |
| -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet |
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| "With mere good intentions hell is
proverbially paved." |
| -- William James |
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| "Expecting the world to treat you fairly
because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull
not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." |
| -- Dennis Wholey |
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| "Be good and you will be lonesome." |
| -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), American author |
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| "What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are
to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along
life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." |
| -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English
essayist, poet, statesman |
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| "He who wishes to exert a useful influence
must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what
seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what
is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples
where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),
German writer, scientist |
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| "The good people sleep much better at
night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the
waking hours much more." |
| -- Woody Allen (b. 1935), American comedian |
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| "The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good men to do nothing." |
| -- Kurt Herbert Alder (1902-58), German chemist |
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| "Bad is never good until worse
happens." |
| -- Danish Proverb |
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| "Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death
can erase our good deeds." |
| -- Buddha (563?-483? BC), [Siddhartha Gautama]
Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism |
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| "The road to Hell is paved with good
intentions." |
| -- Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84), British writer |
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| "To do good thing in the world, first you
must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life." |
| -- Robert Browning (1812-89), British poet |
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| "There is nothing either good or bad, but
thinking makes it so." |
| -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English
playwright |
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| "He who wishes to exert a useful influence
must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what
seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what
is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples
where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) |
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