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- 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
- There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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