~ Goodness and Giving Quotes ~

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[highlight-text]For the cause that lacks assistance The wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance And the good that I can do.

George Linnaeus Banks

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[highlight-text]If a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Edgar Watson Howe

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[highlight-text]If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long solitary task of perfecting himself.

Robertson Davies

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[highlight-text]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.

Michel de Montaigne

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[highlight-text]Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?

Samuel Johnson

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[highlight-text]There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.

Sign in Springdalea

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[highlight-text]A glass is good and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.

John O'Keeffe

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[highlight-text]You have not lived a perfect day even though you have earned your money unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Ruth Smeltzer

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[highlight-text]He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows; he breathes but does not live.

Sanskrit Proverb

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[highlight-text]Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever; Do noble things not dream them all day long; And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

Charles Kingsley

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[highlight-text]I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.

William Penn

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[highlight-text]No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.

La Rochefoucauld

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[highlight-text]The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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[highlight-text]If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

Joseph Addison

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[highlight-text]I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

Stephen Grellet