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• In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

  Euripides

  Kind, All Kinds

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• For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

  Socrates

  Men, Gentleman, Good Man

  "The Dialogues of Plato, Vol. 1". Book by Plato, Clarendon Press, p. 148, 1871.

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• The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.

  Philip Massinger

  Strong, Soul

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• One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.

  Ibn Majah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Rewards

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• A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  May, Grain, Charmed Life

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.99

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• All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

  Philip James Bailey

  Race, Good Man, Mankind

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.13

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• True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Eye, Shining, Heaven

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.444

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• There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

  Joseph Joubert

  Soul, Body, Taste

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Might, Diligence, Abandon

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1861). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Togeher with Notes and a Glossary”, p.253

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• The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in a situation, in oneself, and in one's world, which is expressed without doubt, hesitation, or regret. The sun principle also includes the notion of blessings descending upon us and creating sacred world. It also represents clarity, without doubt.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Regret, Blessing, Creating

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Mistake, Too Much, Virtue

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• In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Powerful, Greatness, Heaven

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• Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Religious, Believe, Men

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

  John Milton

  Wise, Heart, Perfect

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.99

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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.

  Francis Bacon

  Character, Men, Mind

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.462

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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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Optimism

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.488, Wordsworth Editions

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• A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

  Martial

  Men, Good Man, Existence

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• Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

  Thomas Sprat

  Forever, Wickedness, Charming

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• How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

  William Shakespeare

  Positive, Kindness, Naughty

  William Shakespeare (1936). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.46, CUP Archive

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  A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

  Laozi

  Honesty, Taoism, Enlightening

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• Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

  Aristotle

  Art, Causes, Action

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

  William Blake

  Wholesome Food, Traps, Caught

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.178, Pearson Education

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• The good is the end toward which all things tend.

  Boethius

  Ends, All Things

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.

  Pablo Picasso

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