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- There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!
- Sterne
- Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual.
- Brendan Francis
- There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
- Bruce Catton
- The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.
- Author Unknown
- Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
- Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
- It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
- Alfred A. Montapert
- If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
- Fridjof Nansen
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