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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Thornton Wilder
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(as Maudie Triplett), Response to Goodness! What a lovely diamond! in the film Night After Night (1932). She later used ???Goodness had nothing to do with It??? for the title of her autobiography (1953)
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Mae West
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Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
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Thornton Wilder
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(as Maudie Triplett), Response to Goodness! What a lovely diamond! in the film Night After Night (1932). She later used ???Goodness had nothing to do with It??? for the title of her autobiography (1953)
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Athenus
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Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
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Mae West
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Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
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Elbert Hubbard
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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
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Beatrix Potter
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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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Vincent McNabb
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Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
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William Congreve
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.
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Euripides
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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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Thomas Carlyle
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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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Heloise
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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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MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 846.
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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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George W. Bush
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Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.
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William Hazlitt
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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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Alan Alda
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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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John Dryden
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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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SHAKS.: _Timon of A.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.
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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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Swami Vivekananda
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Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Maurice Masterlinck
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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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Lao Tzu
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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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Mark Twain
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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Martin Luther
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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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SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.
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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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Gerald R. Ford
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As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
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Dinesh D'Souza
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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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Andrew Bonar Law
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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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Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because
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Gerald R. Ford
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As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)
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James Agee
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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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Jay Edward Adams
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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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La Bruyere
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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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Goodness has NOTHING to do with it.....
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Badness is only spoiled goodness.
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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
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People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.
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Love is my Sword,
Goodness my Armor,
And Humor my Shield.
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"Oh my goodness. It's Princess Leia. Luke Skywalker went that way
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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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Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.
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'Cucumbers in Space'? <blushing bright pink> Oh, goodness... -Anna
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.
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The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
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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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One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual p
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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"Abash the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is..." - T-Bird
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"Goodness gracious, Great Voles of Fire!" - Kira Lee Lewis
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"Kissing girls is a goodness. It beats hell out of card games."
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"Honest to goodness *real*, not toy, hellicopter!" Mike Nelson
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
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You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith.
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The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.
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"Thank goodness I was able to salvage this girl!" -- Crow T. Robot
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"Thank goodness! This reinforces my simplistic worldview." (Tick)
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"Oh goodness gracious, I'm dead!" -- Joel Robinson
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"A head bag! Those are chopped full of..heady goodness!" -- Apu
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Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the
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"I'm not the man I was, thank goodness!" Jadzia Dax _and_ the Doctor
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"Put some pants on, for goodness sakes!"--Nate to Dex
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"Bicycle Repairman! Thank goodness you've come! Look! It's broken!"
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"My goodness. This a turn for the worse," states @TO.
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"My goodness... insulting a rotarian." -- Arthur
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"Goodness, I like Squirt!" Crow T. Robot
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity
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"Goodness, how crass you must think me!" - Pretorius
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"Oh my goodness!" said Tom graciously.
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We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not o
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At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.
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