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He who would
do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general
Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer,
for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized
Particulars.
-- William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet,
Painter
That man is
good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of
the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the
hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness
is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater
sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue
can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.
-- Jean De La Bruyère
1645-1696, French Classical
Writer
No people do
so much harm as those who go about doing good.
-- Mandell Creighton
1843-1901, British Historian,
Bishop
The compulsion
to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans
seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually
can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings.
Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the
acceptance of gifts.
-- Ivan Illich
1926-, Austrian-born American
Theologian, Author
She is such a
good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into
the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
-- Charles Maurice De
Talleyrand
1754-1838, French Statesman
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