Goodness Quote by William Dean Howells

“Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.”

William Dean Howells

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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

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“How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing…

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n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a…

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Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

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If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

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“If he was not commonplace, it was through nothing remarkable in his mind, which was simply clear and practical, but through some combination of…

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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

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The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts,…

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“Our theory of disaster, of sorrow, of affliction, borrowed from the poets and novelist, is that it is incessant; but every passage in our…

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Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a…

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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden…

Daniel K Judd

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Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.

Alistair Begg

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For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

Bret Harte

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One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in…

Rupert Brooke

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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Hanif Kureishi

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the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root…

Pope John Paul II

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The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable…

Pope Francis

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

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.…

Wendell Berry

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The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private…

Jonathan Kozol

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A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

Henry Fielding

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