"Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly."
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"but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it."
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"Nature is goodness crystallized."
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"Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free."
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"The good displeases us when we are not up to it."
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"Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you."
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"We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?"
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"The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether."
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"I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness."
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"Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness."
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"I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness."
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"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."
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"Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto."
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"Goodness its the kind of work I come to the Fringe to see"
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