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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.
-- Elias Canetti
1905-, Austrian Novelist,
Philosopher
Nothing that
was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness
realized by man ever dies, or can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
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.
-- Pablo Casals
1876-1973, Spanish Cellist,
Conductor, Composer
Good and bad
men are less than they seem.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet,
Critic, Philosopher
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It is very
hard to be simple enough to be good.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
In goodness
there are all kinds of wisdom.
-- Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
The devil
himself is good when he is pleased.
-- Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman,
Author
The good is,
like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances
through centuries of exploration.
-- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist,
Philosopher
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