Goodness quotes
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"Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness."
"In a certain sense the Good is comfortless."
"Evil is only good perverted."
"But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God."
"If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women."
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."
"Fearful is the seductive power of goodness."
"We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it."
"So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all."
"There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness."
"Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks."
"The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived."
"It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning."
"To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land."
"The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well."
"How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world."
"It is not goodness to be better than the worst."
"The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness."
"Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak."
"Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them."
