Quotes
Quotes about Goodness
There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it out.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast.
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
Where no ill seems.
Abash'd the devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her shape how lovely.
She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
It sounds like stories from the laud of spirits
If any man obtains that which he merits,
Or any merit that which he obtains.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends!
Hath he not always treasures, always friends,
The good great man? Three treasures,--love and light,
And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath;
And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,--
Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
I thank the goodness and the grace
Which on my birth have smiled,
And made me, in these Christian days,
A happy Christian child.
Fill the seats of justice
With good men, not so absolute in goodness
As to forget what human frailty is.
We too often forget that not only is there "a soul of goodness in things evil,"but very generally a soul of truth in things erroneous.
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.
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Saints do not create goodness, they but exemplify it
The soul in hell is ... a soul at last aware that truth and beauty and goodness, as expressed in what we may call the personality of God, go on existing but quite beyond the hope of that soul's being able to get at them. The condemned soul knows what it wants, but it can't have what it wants. That's hell
There is sometimes neither goodness nor beauty in truth
The war has been a means of bringing out men's goodness. Self-sacrifice, courage, love of comrades
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
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.
To talk goodness is not good... Only to do it is.
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
