"There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness."
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"Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength."
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"Seek for good, but expect evil."
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"The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability."
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"Infinite goodness has such wide arms."
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"Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell."
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"The good is the end toward which all things tend."
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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."
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"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom."
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"Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil."
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"Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'."
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"Nothing is rarer than real goodness."
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"There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted."
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"The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost."
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"Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth."
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"Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into."
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"No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness."
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"Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself."
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"I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear."
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"If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet."
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