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• Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.

  Mary McCarthy

  Believe, Giving, Historical

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• Use every letter you write
  Every conversation you have
  Every meeting you attend
  To express your fundamental beliefs and dreams
  Affirm to others the vision of the world you want

  Robert Muller

  Dream, Powerful, Writing

  "A Planet of Hope".

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• I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find their own place by their virtue and talents; a simple and happy society, where the goodness of humanity is expanded to the maximum, and the evilness of humanity is constrained to the maximum; honesty, trust, kindness, and helping each other are everyday occurrences in life; there is not so much anger and anxiety, a pure smile on everyone’s face.

  Xu Zhiyong

  Country, Honesty, Kindness

  "The Trial of the Chinese Dream" by Evan Osnos, www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2014.

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• I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Believe, Water

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2010

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• What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?

  Anne Revere

  Overcoming, Littles, Badness

  "Fictional character: Mrs. Brown". "National Velvet", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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• Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.

  Andrew Garfield

  Men, Spiders, Fellow Man

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• Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on

  Chris Cooper

  Thank You, Years, Technique

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• It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen

  Hattie McDaniel

  Long, Looks, Honest

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• It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production, inventiveness, benevolence, charity, medicine, technology, and all of the gifts of the Jews. Our goodness makes them ill.

  Pamela Geller

  Dream, Creativity, Technology

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• That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

  Pittacus of Mytilene

  Wicked, States, Command

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• The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

  Charles Dickens

  Class, Ordinary, Citizens

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• Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?

  Will Durant

  Writing, Dare, Humans

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn’t matter why or when or how.

  John Fante

  Men, Earthquakes, What If

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.530, Canongate Books

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• We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.

  Abdul Kalam

  Fire, Wings, Giving

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.16, Universities Press

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• This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Thinking, True Life

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved.  If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do we not love God, in whom is all goodness?  All other things are but sparks of that fire, and drops of that sea.  If you see any good in the creature, remember there is much more in the Creator.  Leave therefore the streams, and go to the fountainhead of comfort.

  Richard Sibbes

  Fire, Sea, Sparks

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• Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which foolishly I have helped to destroy, he was creating a norm of badness by which, and by which alone, an opposite norm of goodness could exist. We were privileged, in our short knowledge of him, to see and estimate his wickedness and we emerge from the acquaintanceship better and more virtuous men.

  Ian Fleming

  Men, Creating, Evil

  "Casino Royale". Book by Ian Fleming, Ch. 20: "The Nature Of Evil", 1953.

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• The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, People, Judgement

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

  Christopher Columbus

  Fear, Believe, Sky

  Christopher Columbus (1959). “A new and fresh English translation of the letter of Columbus announcing the discovery of America”

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• Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.

  Wes Fesler

  Optimism, Looks, World

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• Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,- not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,- not are, nor will be.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Judging, People

  Robert Browning (1872). “A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Men and women”, p.32

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• More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

  George Saunders

  Football, Running, Couple

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Giving, Honor

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• ... Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
  I fear no evil, for You are with me...
  Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

  David

  Bible, Book, Shadow Of Death

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