Goodness Quotes
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
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It is possible to be happy without having perfect health . . . Thank goodness my happiness doesn't come from my joints, but from my heart.
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All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.
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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Goodness transcends badness.
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It may not always feel wonderful. but you're out there doing it. You're running while others are just walking. Or sitting around. I mean, come on - you're out there running, for goodness sake. You're to be taken seriously.
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O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.
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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
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But you can thank God the Lord for His inconceivable goodness, which can be recognized daily and hourly throughout your entire existence, if only you honestly try! Your whole life shall therefore become a thanksgiving!
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I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.
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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.
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You can't change people's minds, we are not God. We can do our best to do what we do, whatever job we have to bring sort of goodness out there. But we can't change people. As an artist what I can do is to communicate!
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I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.
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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
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What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
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Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
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Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech.
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What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?
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Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind shrieked and where are they?
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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
