| The refuge from
pessimism is the good men and women
at any time existing
in the world,
--they keep faith and happiness alive.
Charles E. Norton
Know
all the good that individuals find,
Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind.
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in these three words--Health, Peace, and Competence.
Alexander Pope
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead
of you.
Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are
still yours.
Marcus Aurelius |
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Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can. |
John Wesley |
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We ought to do good to others as
simply and as naturally
as a horse runs, or a bee makes
honey, or a vine bears grapes
season after season without
thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius |
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Charles
Lamb
The
greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action
by
stealth and to have it found out by accident. |
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of
others cannot keep it from themselves.
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She tended to be
impatient with that sort of intellectual who,
for all his
brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple
conclusion
that to be reasonably happy you have to be
reasonably good.
Carolyn
Kizer |
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Conviction is worthless unless
it is converted into conduct.
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Thomas Carlyle
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That best portion of
good people's lives,
Their little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth |
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| Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Real joy comes not
from ease or riches
or from the praise of others,
but from
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Waste no
more time arguing what
a good person should be. Be one.
Marcus
Aurelius |
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To me,
one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the
universe
is the fact that when people and governments work
intelligently
and far-sightedly for the good of others,
they achieve their own prosperity, too.
Barabara Ward |
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All that is good, all that is true,
all that is beautiful,
all that is beneficent, be it
great or small,
be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as
well as supernatural,
moral as well as material, comes
from God.
John Henry Newman |
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Morality has been
conceived up to the
present in a very narrow spirit, as
obedience to a law, as inner struggle
between opposite
laws. As for me, I declare
that when I do good I obey no
one, I fight
no battle and win no victory. The cultivated
person has only to follow the delicious incline
of his
or her inner
impulses. Be beautiful
and then do at each moment whatever
your heart may inspire you to do. This is
the
whole of morality.
Ernest
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Goodwill to others. . . helps build
you up. It is good for your body.
It makes your blood
purer, your muscles stronger,
and your whole form more
symmetrical in shape.
It is the real elixir of life.
Prentice Mulford |
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If you
have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have
neglected much, and most of all yourself.
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Do things for others
and you'll find you self-consciousness evaporating like
morning dew.
Dale Carnegie |
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Sow good services; sweet
remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de Stael |
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Goodwill is the mightiest practical
force in the universe.
Charles F. Dole |
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While I crawl upon this planet I think myself
obliged to do
what good I can, in my narrow domestic spheres, to my
fellow creatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do.
Lord Chesterfield
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If one is to do good one must
do it in the minute particulars.
General good is the plea of the
hypocrite, the flatterer and the scoundrel.
William Blake
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Those
who wait to do a great deal of good at once will never do
anything.
Life is made up of little things. True greatness
consists in
being great in the little things.
Samuel
Johnson
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| Goodness
Knows
Goodness knows that
sometimes the greatest thing
in the world is a smile from a
child,
So Goodness laughs a lot.
Goodness knows that
it's easier to break a child than to mend one,
So Goodness handles with care.
Goodness knows that
everyone deserves a second chance,
And sometimes a third and fourth chance, too.
Goodness knows that we
all need friends in this world,
So Goodness is determined to be friendly.
Goodness knows that
only people count,
So Goodness never counts out people.
Goodness knows that
life is sometimes lonely,
But we are never alone.
And when the sorrows
of life are left unexplained,
it's still not too much to bear,
For we can trust that Goodness knows.
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Above
all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself
an
act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of
joy
and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days
on the
sunniest heights of our soul.
Maurice
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