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Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can, To all the people you can, In all the ways you can, As long as ever you can.

For all their luxury was doing good.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.