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It is easy to
perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled
habit of performing such actions.
-- Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
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.
-- Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor,
Philosopher
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.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
1814-1876, Russian Political
Theorist
Goodness is
achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men,
attended by love.
-- Saul Bellow
1915-, American Novelist
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No one can be
good for long if goodness is not in demand.
-- Bertolt Brecht
1898-1956, German Dramatist,
Poet
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.
-- Emily Bronte
1818-1848, British Novelist,
Poet
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.
-- Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister,
Poet
We all have
known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good
statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who,
for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled
for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy;
Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned
the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God
pardon all good men!
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet
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