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Quotes About Good

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.
~ Robert A. Burton
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.
~ Robert Browning
Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It takes a man to make a devil.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.
~ Hesiod
Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.
~ Isaac Asimov
A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.
~ Jane Yolen
He's a good man," Ranger said. "And you?" "I'm better.
~ Janet Evanovich
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Noble be man, helpful and good!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.
~ John Milton
The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.
~ John O. Brennan
I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does.
~ Ginger Rogers
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
~ Charles Lyell
The real payoffs you never understand. You should just give good people money and tell them to do good things.
~ James Gosling
I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.
~ Lara Spencer
Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.
~ Jimmy Hoffa
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.
~ Daniel Webster