~ Goodness and Giving Quotes ~

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[highlight-text]This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

George R. Gissing

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[highlight-text]There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

La Rochefoucauld

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[highlight-text]We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

W. H. Auden

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[highlight-text]The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.

Sven Halla

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[highlight-text]He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.

William Penn

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[highlight-text]If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.

Bushrod H. Campbell

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[highlight-text]The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.

Charles Lamb

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[highlight-text]The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.

Blaise Pascal

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[highlight-text]That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

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[highlight-text]Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

Baltasar Gracian

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[highlight-text]Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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[highlight-text]That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Simone de Beauvoir

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[highlight-text]Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

Sara Jeannette Duncan

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[highlight-text]If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.

Henry David Thoreau

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[highlight-text]It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warner