Goodness Quotes - Page 11

• The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Rewards, Merit, World

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• For here we are so blind and foolish that we never seek God until he, of his goodness, shows himself to us. It is when we do see something of him by his grace that we are stirred by that same grace to seek him, and with earnest longing to see still more of his blessedness. So I saw him and sought him; I had him and wanted him. It seems to me that this is and should be an experience common to us all.

  Julian of Norwich

  Grace, Saws, Common

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• No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Mistake, Greatness, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses”, p.767

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• It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

  Seneca the Younger

  Worst

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• I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

  Petrarch

  And Love, Worst, Pursue

  "Il Canzoniere (Song Book)". Book by Petrarch (Sonnet CCXXV, Canzone XXI, "To Laura in Life"), circa 1351-1353.

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• Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

  Sallust

  Wise, Common, States

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• Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Evil, Voltage, Urges

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• Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, Grandfather, Fathers And Grandfathers

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.27, Nayika Publishing

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• The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

  William B. Ogden

  Simple, Hands, Ingredients

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• The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Sweet, Men

  Address in Divinity College, Cambridge, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

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• I want to be the best that I can be. I want to do and have and live in a way that is in harmony with my idea of the greatest goodness. I want to harmonize physically here in this body with that which I believe to be the best, or the good way, of life. If you will make those statements, and then do not take action unless you feel good, you will always be moving upon the path in harmony with your idea of that which is good.

  Esther Hicks

  Believe, Moving, Ideas

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Names, People, Giving

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian invention - is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Eye, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

  Alain de Botton

  Tools, Literature, Littles

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• All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Рипол Классик

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• In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

  Walker Percy

  World, Defeated, Destined

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.

  James Monroe

  Christian, Army, Simple

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• Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Heart, Suffering, Foundation

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• It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Honesty, Results, Honorable

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• A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness.

  James R. Swartz

  Love, Peace, Rivers

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• Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Pride, People

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• How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were tobegin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes; and in the afternoon go forth to practise Christian meekness and charity with goodness aforethought!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christian, Men, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.516, Delphi Classics

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• It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Progress, Important, Reform

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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• There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Wickedness, Badness

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• Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

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