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To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly.
[Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: on the town hall of Zittau, Saxony
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Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.
Author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius)
Source: Meditations (ch. VII)
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What good I see humbly I seek to do,
And live obedient to the law, in trust
That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
Author: Edwin Arnold
Source: The Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 273)
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Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so
much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
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For the cause that lacks assistance,
The wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.
Author: George Linnaeus Banks
Source: What I Live For
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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it
from themselves.
Author: George Linnaeus Banks
Source: What I Live For
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And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of
Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. I, v. 46)
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The good he scorned
Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,
Not to return; or if it did, in visits
Like those of angels, short and far between.
Author: Robert Blair
Source: The Grave (pt. II, l. 586)
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One may not doubt that, somehow Good
Shall come of Water and of Mud;
And sure, the reverent eye must see
A purpose in Liquidity.
Author: Rupert Brooke
Source: Heaven
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There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as
before;
The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;
What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more;
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Abt Vogler (IX)
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No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at
first.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Novalis
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Can one desire too much of a good thing?
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. VI)
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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is
good and to grieve at the opposite.
[Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari
bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Amicitia (XIII)
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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to
men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem
hominibus dando.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio Pro Quinto Ligario (XII)
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What's the good of it? for whose advantage?
[Lat., Cui bono?]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio Pro Sextio Roscio Amerino (XXX), quoted from Lucius Cassius' "Second Philippic"
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That good diffused may more abundant grow.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Conversation (l. 441)
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Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. I, The Sofa, l. 673)
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Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood,
He tried the luxury of doing good.
Author: George Crabbe
Source: Tales of the Hall (bk. III)
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As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an
evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil
that they set out to destroy.
Author: Christopher Dawson
Source: The Judgement of the Nations
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Who soweth good seed shall surely reap;
The year grows rich as it groweth old,
And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
Author: Julia C.R. Dorr
Source: To the "Bouquet Club"
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Look around the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Juvenal (satire X)
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
Author: Epictetus
Source: Fragments, (Long's translation)
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For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake,
Do all the good you can,
To all the people you can,
In all the ways you can,
As long as ever you can.
Author: Epitaph
Source: tombstone inscription in Shrewsbury, England, a favorite of Mr. Moody
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For all their luxury was doing good.
Author: Sir Samuel Garth
Source: Cleremont (l. 149)
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A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,
Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust--Prolog in Himmel--Der Herr (l. 88)
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
Author: George Orwell
Source: None
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Author: Aristotle
Source: None
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Author: Walter Savage Londor
Source: None
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Author: Michel de Montaigne
Source: None
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: None
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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Author: Georg Hegel
Source: None
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Author: Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib
Source: None
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts
Author: Tibetan Proverb
Source: None
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There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Author: Woody Allen
Source: None
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The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.
Author: Jan Van Ruysbroeck
Source: None
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Author: Akhenaton
Source: None
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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