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• In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

  Thomas Carlyle

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• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

  Thomas Carlyle

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• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

  Joyce Cary

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• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  Victor Hugo

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• Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

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• Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honour, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.

  Richard J. Foster

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• The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

  Menander

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• There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• How goodness heightens beauty!

  Milan Kundera

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• Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.

  Michael Jackson

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• Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

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• Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

  Saul Bellow

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• It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

  Charles Dudley Warner

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• Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

  William Butler Yeats

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• Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

  Samuel Butler

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• Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

  Samuel Butler

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