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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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| I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me |
| Woody Allen |
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| If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast |
| George Herbert |
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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 |
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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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| It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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| My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. (Psalms 144:2) |
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| Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let be free and unashamed. |
| William Saroyan |
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| Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever (Psalms 23:6). |
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| The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:22) |
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| The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
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| The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
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