“Goodness is beauty in the best estate”
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“Goodness is beauty in the best estate”
“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature”
“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt”
“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good”
“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic”
“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm”
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided”