Goodness Quotes
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Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.
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My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I learned a long time ago that if you're going to tell a story about your retarded sister, you need to mention she's retarded right off the bat or inevitably, at the end of the story, someone will say, What... is she, retarded? And then you have to go, Uh... yeah, she is. Followed by a lengthy, awkward silence.
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Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech.
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Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.
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We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
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Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness.
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So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.
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Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the Will of God.
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Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.
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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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I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.
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Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
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When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
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Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.
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One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
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The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.
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Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.
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Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
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Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.
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I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
