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Goodness Quotes (page 407)

Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better? and the vile ones are viler, for that matter. Robert A. Heinlein
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! Nikos Kazantzakis
If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings. Elizabeth Bishop
Virgil quote: "The noblest motive is the public good."
The noblest motive is the public good. Virgil
I honor and love you: but why do you who are citizens of the great and mighty nation care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor And reputation, and so little amount wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? Re you not ashamed of these?... I do nothing but go about persuading you all, not to take thought for your persons and your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given... Socrates
William Shakespeare quote: "So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be..."
So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends. William Shakespeare
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote: "Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to..."
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sunshine is delivious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin
Socrates quote: "If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for..."
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. Socrates
Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself. Corrie Ten Boom
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done. Thomas Hardy
Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh. Benjamin Franklin
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small caf in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Douglas Adams
C. S. Lewis quote: "Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten..."
Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years. C. S. Lewis
Confucius quote: "The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in..."
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does. Confucius

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