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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
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Elias Canetti

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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Iris Murdoch

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Good and bad men are less than they seem.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Aldous Huxley

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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Saul Bellow

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Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
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Henry David Thoreau

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Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
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David Grayson

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Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts
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Tibetan Proverb

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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
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William Shakespeare

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In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
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Euripides

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It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Look for no reward in goodness but goodness itself.
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Source Unknown

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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
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Georg Hegel

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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Bertolt Brecht

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Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
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Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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George Orwell

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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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H.G. Wells

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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
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Thomas Fuller

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The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.
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Jan Van Ruysbroeck

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There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.
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Chinese Proverb

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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
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Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
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Friedrich Nietzsche

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