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To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.

What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.

The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between.

One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.

There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

What's the good of it? for whose advantage?

That good diffused may more abundant grow.

Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.

Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!