Quotes About Goodness

In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind: Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil.

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves...

When devils do the worst sins, they first put on the pretense of goodness and innocence, as I am doing now.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.

Here come those I have done good to against my will

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event. ... Therefore be merry, coz; since sudden sorrow Serves to say thus: Some good thing comes tomorrow.

So shines a good deed in a naughty world

some good I mean to do, Despite of mine own nature.

For goodness, growing to a plurisy, Dies in his own too much: that we would do We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues

This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirator, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar. He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!

God's benison go with you; and with those That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Mama," I asked, "do you think God made a heaven for all good dogs?" "Yes," she said, "I'm sure He did.

Più che d'intelligenza abbiamo bisogno di dolcezza e di bontà.

Goodness is helpless without wits

There are two kinds of people in this world, good and bad. The good people sleep better, but the bad people tend to have more fun during the waking hours.

When man has a virtuous thought,     Heaven will grant him support.

The wide earth may harbor vicious affairs,     But high Heaven will a good man vindicate.     Footloose they're safe on Tath?gata's way,     Certain to reach Mount Spirit's paradise gate.

Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.