Goodness

(328 votes)   We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(307 votes)   Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(272 votes)   It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(244 votes)   A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(239 votes)   In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(239 votes)   The devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(208 votes)   Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(166 votes)   There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(116 votes)   If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(114 votes)   Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(111 votes)   In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(94 votes)   At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

Simone Weil
1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic

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(94 votes)   Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(88 votes)   Look for no reward in goodness but goodness itself.

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(78 votes)   The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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