#Goodness Quotes

“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.”

“My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.”

“I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.”

“Good things should be praised.”

“For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.”

“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”

“What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?”

“Tis good-will makes intelligence.”

“A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.”

“The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.”

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”

“Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.”

“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”

“A good heart 'is worth gold.”

“Nothing can be preserved that is not good.”

“There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't”

“Men in all ways are better than they seem.”

“We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.”

“All men in the abstract are just and good.”

“Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.”

“We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.”

“His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any of the ancient philosophers... He was the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has been exhibited to man.”

“There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.”

“Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.”

“He is not great who is not greatly good.”

“Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.”

“For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.”

“Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.”

“The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.”

“Words alone are certain good.”

“There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.”

“I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.”

“For every act of violence and messiness there are a million acts of kindness and goodness. It just depends where you look. And when I look around at virtually anyone or anything on the planet, I can see another face of intention - beauty.”

“Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.”

“Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”

“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”

“The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.”

“The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.”

“A good action is preferable to an argument.”

“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”

“For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.”

“The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.”

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”

“One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.”

“It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.”

“How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.”

“Human nature is not of itself vicious.”

“And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.”