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“It’s hard to see what’s good, what’s right, when you’re in the middle of it”
“Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.”
“I noticed that the snow was gone and the ground looked greener. It’s funny how the good stuff can wipe away the bad stuff so quickly.”
“[P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn't necessarily feel better afterwards.”
“It’s highly virtuous to say we’ll be good, but wecan’t do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strongpull, and a pull all together before some of us even get ourfeet set in the right way.”
“Where Christ’s Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.”
“Once you see the good in someone, it’s hard not to notice the good in everyone.”
“Why can’t I just be bad?” I asked, figuring my mom would have no idea what I was talking about.“Well, that’s easy, sweetie. You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside,...”
“Writers, when they’re good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they leave the earth, like having the windows shut for good. Where will the world be...”
“One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader in to a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, prose must not.It is the interior of a flower that is not y...”
“Realize your potential. Anyone that says one person can’t change the world is wrong. Your actions, thoughts, and words all ripple out into the world. One act of love can change someone’s life. One ...”
“Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.”
“The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal...”
“It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.”
“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the w...”
“Endure and persist this pain will turn to good by and by.”
“I've always had good energy I've always had good health.”
“My country has been very good to me I must be good to my country.”
