The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
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America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
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Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
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Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.
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When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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Abash'd the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely.
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on faint deeds hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 't is shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
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The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal.
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Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
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May he live Longer than I have time to tell his years! Ever belov'd, and loving, may his rule be! And, when old Time shall lead him to his end, Goodness and he fill up one monument!
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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.
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If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.
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That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect.
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Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.
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Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
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