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- He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
- The Talmud
- Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
- I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
- Anonymous
- All good things are wild, and free.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
- Johnson
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