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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Wangari Maathai

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Mary Baker Eddy

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.

Maurice Maeterlinck

In that worthiest of all struggles, the struggle for self-mastery and goodness, we are far less patient with ourselves than God is with us.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivac.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

Charles Perrault

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Northrop Frye

Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts

Tibetan Proverb

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

Bertolt Brecht

Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.

Blaise Pascal

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.

William Shakespeare

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Euripides

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

David Grayson

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Georg Hegel

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Milan Kundera

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

Jan Van Ruysbroeck

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

Sappho

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Marcel Proust

Do not be afraid to hear about virtue and do not be a stranger to the term. For it is not distant from us nor is it external to us; its realisation lies within us and the work is easy if only we want it. The Greeks leave home and cross the seas in order to gain an education, but there is no need for us to go away on account of the Kingdom of God nor need we cross the sea in search of virtue. For the Lord has told us, "The Kingdom of God is within you." All that is needed for goodness is that which is within, the human heart.

Saint Anthony the Great

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

Robert Casper Lintner

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

T. T. Munger

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