"Nature turns all malfaisance to good."
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"Goodness that preaches undoes itself."
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"He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God."
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"Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching."
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"All men in the abstract are just and good."
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"I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature."
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"I loved writing Dumbledore and he is the epitome of goodness."
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"A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair."
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"God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself."
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"God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God."
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"I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough."
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"Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat."
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"To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests."
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"The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man."
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"Let goodness go with the doing."
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"Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness."
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"The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence."
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"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
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