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We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having. (Quote by - Jane Addams)

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. (Quote by - John Wesley)

How goodness heightens beauty! (Quote by - Milan Kundera)

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power. it's the goodness. (Quote by - Robert Plant)

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork. (Quote by - James Prescott Joule)

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. (Quote by - William Penn)

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)

But goodness alone is never enough A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made. (Quote by - Donald G. Mitchell)

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. (Quote by - George Combe)

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good. (Quote by - Andy Griffith)

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration. Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. (Quote by - Frank Harris)

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood. (Quote by - Edwin Markham)

Can one desire too much of a good thing? (Quote by - Cervantes)

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. (Quote by - Alex Noble)

If people are truly, madly, deeply in love with each other, they will find a way. (Quote by - Similar)

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adam)

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. (Quote by - Carl W.)

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do. (Quote by - George Linnaeus Banks)

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter. (Quote by - Daniel Morgan)

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