Quotes About Good

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

It is human nature. If we surround ourselves with evil, even evil becomes good to us. If we are not careful, that natural light witin us all that teaches us the difference between the two can be snuffed out completely. Even the best of people can fall.

On a good day this is how we live. This is love. This is what life is. The possibility of finding root, safety and nurturing in a new season.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln

Fulfilling God's law to avoid evil is faith. Fulfilling God's law to achieve good is hope. Fulfilling God's will without any extrinsic reason to this is charity.

Every adventure undertaken, every prophecy spoken or sung, every dangerous road pointed to this simple truth - a battle between good and evil rages every day.

In life, we don't know why things happen. I believe God is not responsible for the bad things that happen to you. Sometimes I think He's responsible for the good things, but sometimes it's something you shape up for yourself.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from your childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

A benefit given to the good is like characters engraven on a stone; a benefit given to the evil is like a line drawn on water.

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.

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However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and to be spent in that way.

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

There are good and bad things in all political systems.

The reason for the prosperity of the wicked, and also for the troubles of the good, is not in our hands." Then

The sins of good men are greater than the sins of bad men. One lie from a truthful man is more hurtful than all the lies of a liar. The sins of a man after God's own heart have done more harm than all the crimes of all the Pagan emperors.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

I believe is a common fallacy among intellectuals, that to say someone is "bright," even "brilliant," as was said of Silber, is equivalent to saying someone is good. Silber and I clashed almost immediately. What seemed to infuriate him was that I dared to criticize him publicly and unsparingly.