Goodness
The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.
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Goodness Quotations
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
Henry David Thoreau
Goodness Translations
goodness in Dutch is goedheid
goodness in German is Tugend
goodness in Norwegian is godhet
goodness in Spanish is benignidad, bondad
goodness in Swedish is godhet
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