"Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do."
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"You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception."
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"Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth."
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"How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more."
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"She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body."
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"Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense."
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"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
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"Everyone, everyone is equal. Everyone has a place. No one is written off because there is worth and goodness in every life. Straight from the declaration of independence, that is the Republican ideal. And if we won't defend it, who will?"
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"I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue."
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"Apathy is dead. Show them the face of evil - Satanists lurking among us - running our governments, our banks, our schools, threatening to obliterate the very House of God with their misguided science. Depravity runs deep. Man must be vigilant. Seek the goodness. Become the goodness!"
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"I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom."
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"Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own."
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"Leave something good in every day."
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"A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does."
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"Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again."
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"I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings."
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"I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects."
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"No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way."
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"Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness."
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"What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness."
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