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Quotes about goodness
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. (Green Brian Austin)
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. (Green Brian Austin)
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. (Green Brian Austin)
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. (Green Brian Austin)
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. (Green Brian Austin)
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. (Green Brian Austin)
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. (Green Brian Austin)
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. (Green Brian Austin)
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. (Green Brian Austin)
Good and bad men are less than they seem. (Green Brian Austin)
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. (Green Brian Austin)
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom. (Green Brian Austin)
The devil himself is good when he is pleased. (Green Brian Austin)
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. (Green Brian Austin)
Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. (Green Brian Austin)
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them. (Green Brian Austin)
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. (Green Brian Austin)
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced. (Green Brian Austin)
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. (Green Brian Austin)
How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. (Green Brian Austin)
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. (Green Brian Austin)
There are few good women who do not tire of their role. (Green Brian Austin)
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. (Green Brian Austin)
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. (Green Brian Austin)
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. (Green Brian Austin)
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