* * * his providence
Out of our evil seek to bring forth good.
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| place = Bk. I. L. 162.
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| text = <poem>Since good, the more
Communicated, more abundant grows.
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.
JohnO'Keefe—Sprigs of Laurel. Act II. Sc. 1.
I know and love the good, yet ah! the worst pursue.
Petrarch—To Laura in Life. Canzone XXI.
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| text = Itidemque ut ssepe jam in multis locis,
Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.
And so it happens oft in many instances;
more good is done without our knowledge than
by us intended.
Plautus—Captivi Prologue. XLIV.
Bono ingenio me esse ornatam, quam auro multo
mavolo.
Aurum fortuna invenitur, natura ingenium
donum.
Bonam ego, quam beatam me esse nimio dici
mavolo.
A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for
gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather
to be called good than fortunate.
Plauttts—Phasnulus. I. 2. 90.
Gute Menschen konnen sich leichter in
schlimme hineindenken als diese injene.
Good men can more easily see through bad
men than the latter can the former.
Jean Paul Richter—Hesperus. IV.
You're good for Madge or good for Cis
Or good for Kate, maybe:
But what's to me the good of this
While you're not good for me?
Christina Rossetti—Jessie Cameron. St. 3.
Esse quam videri bonus malebat.
He preferred to be good, rather than to seem
so.
Sallust—Catlina. LIV.
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will
soon also be beautiful.
Sappho—Fragment. 101.
Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem.
It is not goodness to be better than the
very worst.
Seneca—Epistoloe Ad Lucilium.
There lives within the very flame of love
A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;
And nothing is at a like goodness still;
For goodness, growing to a pleurisy,
Dies in his own too much.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 7. L. 115.
There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it out.
Your great goodness, out of holy pity,
Absolv'd him with an axe.
Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 263.
I am in this earthly world; where to do harm,
Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly.
Macbeth. ActrV. Sc. 2. L. 75.
My meaning in saying he is a good man is to
have you understand me that he is sufficient.
Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 14.
For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake,
Do all the good you can,
To all the people you can,
In all the ways you can,
As long as ever you can.
Tombstone Inscription in Shrewsbury, England. Favorite of Mr. Moody.
For who is there but you? who not only claim
to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are
this, and yet have not the power of making others
good. Whereas you are not only good yourself,
but also the cause of goodness in others.
Socrates to Protagoras. See Plato.
Jowett's trans.
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| text = <poem>How pleasant is Saturday night,
When I've tried all the week to be good,
Not spoken a word that is bad,
And obliged every one that I could.
Nancy Dennis Sproat—How Pleasant is
Saturday Night.
One person I have to make good : myself. But
my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy
—if I may.
Stevenson—Christmas Sermon.
She has more goodness in her little finger than
he has in his whole body.
Swift—Polite Conversation. Dialogue H.
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| num = | text = <poem>O, yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will Defects of doubt and taints of blood.
| author = Tennyson | work = InMemoriam. LIV. 1. | seealso = (See also Brooke, Milton, Thomson;.
'Tis only noble to be good.
From seeming evil still educing good.
