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Letter "G" » Goodness
«It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.»
Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
| About:
Dreams,
Effort,
Evil,
Food,
Fulfilment,
Goodness,
Health,
Hunger,
Illness,
Rest,
Wishes
| Keywords:
exertion, health food, sickness, to be filled
«It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good»
«It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man»
Author: Henry MacKenzie
| About:
Belief,
Goodness,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
borne, calamities, Supreme Being
«It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Beauty,
Goodness
| Keywords:
amazing, delusion, goodness
«In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.»
«It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Goodness,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
pronounce
«It shows how dangerous it is to be too good»
«In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty»
«It is very wearing to be good»
«It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.»
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