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[Quote No.16519] Need Area: Friends > General
"Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden; it is forbidden because it is hurtful. [to all]" - Benjamin Franklin
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[Quote No.16520] Need Area: Friends > General
"What's popular isn't always right; what's right isn't always popular.
" - Anon
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[Quote No.16532] Need Area: Friends > General
"You can only extend the hand of friendship; you cannot force the other fellow to grasp it." - Unknown
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[Quote No.16536] Need Area: Friends > General
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." - Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(1856 - 1924) 28th U.S. President
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[Quote No.16613] Need Area: Friends > General
"Gentility is neither in birth, wealth, manner, nor fashion—but in the mind.—A high sense of honor, a determination never to take a mean advantage of another, an adherence to truth, delicacy, politeness towards those with whom we have dealings, are its essential characteristics." - unknown
printed in 'The Eastern Clarion', [PAULDING, MS], September 14, 1859, p. 1, c. 9
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[Quote No.16614] Need Area: Friends > General
"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities, which make a real gentleman or lady, as distinguished from the veneered article, which commonly goes by that name." - Aldous Huxley
(1894 - 1963) novelist and critic
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[Quote No.16618] Need Area: Friends > General
"Gentleman is a term that does not apply to any station, but to the mind and feelings in every station." - Sir Thomas N. Talfourd
(1795 - 1854) English jurist
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[Quote No.16622] Need Area: Friends > General
"True gentleness is founded on...common nature, which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of men. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle." - Hugh Blair
(1718 - 1800) Scottish divine
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[Quote No.16623] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness; there is nothing so gentle as real strength." - Francis De Sales
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[Quote No.16624] Need Area: Friends > General
"True gentleness is love in society, holding intercourse with those around it. It is considerateness; it is tenderness of feeling; it is promptitude of sympathy; it is love in all its depths, and in all its delicacy." - James Hamilton
(1814 - 1867) English clergy
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[Quote No.16625] Need Area: Friends > General
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child a good example; to a father deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." - Arthur J. Balfour
(1848 - 1930) English author and statesman
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[Quote No.16626] Need Area: Friends > General
"When thou makest presents, let them be of such things as will last long; to the end they may be in some sort immortal, and may frequently refresh the memory of the receiver." - John Fuller
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[Quote No.16628] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is the will, and not the gift that makes the giver." - Ephraim Gotthold Lessing
(1729-1781), German dramatist, critic, and writer on philosophy and aesthetics
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[Quote No.16629] Need Area: Friends > General
"The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious." - Martin Luther
(1483 - 1546) German religionist reformer
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[Quote No.16630] Need Area: Friends > General
"Presents, which our love for the donor has rendered precious, are ever the most acceptable." - Ovid
(43 B.C. - 18 A.D.) Roman poet
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[Quote No.16631] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection." - Pindar
(522 B.C. - 44 B.C.) Greek lyric poet
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[Quote No.16633] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is more blessed to give than to receive." - The Bible
Acts 20:35
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[Quote No.16648] Need Area: Friends > General
"As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man." - Joseph Addison
(1672 - 1719) English essayist
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[Quote No.16649] Need Area: Friends > General
"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106 B.C. - 43 B.C.) Roman orator
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[Quote No.16650] Need Area: Friends > General
"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it." - Pliny the Elder
(23 - 79)(Caius Plinius Secundus) Roman officer and naturalist
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[Quote No.16684] Need Area: Friends > General
"The ancient hieroglyphic for God was the figure of an eye upon a scepter, to denote that he sees [judges] and rules all things." - William Wilson Barker
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[Quote No.16685] Need Area: Friends > General
"The very word 'God' suggests care, kindness, goodness; and the idea of God in his infinity, is infinite care, infinite kindness, infinite goodness. We give God the name of good: it is only by shortening it that it becomes God." - Henry Ward Beecher
(1813 - 1887) American clergy
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[Quote No.16686] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is a beauty in the name appropriated by the Saxon nations to the Deity, unequalled except by his most venerated Hebrew appellation. They called him 'God', which is literally 'The Good'. The same word thus signifying the Deity and His most endearing quality." - Charles Tennyson Turner
(1808 - 1879) English divine and poet
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[Quote No.16690] Need Area: Friends > General
"Non - cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good." - Mohandas K. Gandhi
(1869 - 1948) Indian nationalist and spiritual leader
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[Quote No.16697] Need Area: Friends > General
"Good breeding is benevolence in trifles, or the preference of others to ourselves in the daily occurrences of life." - Lord Chatham
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[Quote No.16699] Need Area: Friends > General
"The summary of good breeding may be reduced to this rule: 'Behave to all others as you would they should behave to you'. " - Henry Fielding
(1707 - 1754) English novelist
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[Quote No.16705] Need Area: Friends > General
"Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue I mean good nature are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and the staff of life." - John Dryden
(1631 - 1700) English poet and author
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[Quote No.16706] Need Area: Friends > General
"A shrewd observer once said, that in walking the streets of a slippery morning, one might see where the good - natured people lived, by the ashes thrown on the ice before the doors." - Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790) American statesman, inventor and author
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[Quote No.16707] Need Area: Friends > General
"Good nature is the very air of a good mind; the sign of a large and generous soul, and the peculiar soil in which virtue prospers." - Godfrey Goodman
(1583 - 1655) English author
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[Quote No.16710] Need Area: Friends > General
"A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed upon a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward." - Saint Basil
(329 - 379) bishop of Caesarea
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[Quote No.16711] Need Area: Friends > General
"He is good that does good to others. If he suffers for the good he does, he is better still; and if he suffers from them to whom he did good, he has arrived to that height of goodness that nothing but an increase of his sufferings can add to it; if it proves his death, his virtue is at its summit; it is heroism complete." - Jean de la Bruyere
(1645 - 1696) French essayist and moralist
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[Quote No.16712] Need Area: Friends > General
"Live for something: Do good and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten. Your name and your good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven." - Thomas Chalmers
(1780 - 1847) Scottish divine
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[Quote No.16714] Need Area: Friends > General
"In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106 B.C. - 43 B.C.) Roman orator
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[Quote No.16715] Need Area: Friends > General
"Beautiful is the activity, which works for good, and beautiful the stillness, which waits for good; blessed the self - sacrifice of one, and blessed the self - forgetfulness of the other." - Robert Collyer
(1823 - 1912) American clergy
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[Quote No.16716] Need Area: Friends > General
"By desiring what is perfectly good, even when we do not quite know what it is, and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil, widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower." - George Eliot
(pen-name of Mary Ann Evans) English novelist (1819 - 1880)
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[Quote No.16717] Need Area: Friends > General
"Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine." - Cunningham Geikie
(1826 - 1906) Scottish clergy
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[Quote No.16718] Need Area: Friends > General
"Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity." - Oliver Goldsmith
(1728 - 1774) English poet, dramatist and novelist
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[Quote No.16719] Need Area: Friends > General
"A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men to their friends." - Bishop Hall
(circa 1850) American clergy
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[Quote No.16720] Need Area: Friends > General
"Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps that went about continually doing good." - James Hamilton
(1814 - 1867) English clergy
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[Quote No.16721] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good..." - Matthew Henry
(1662 - 1714) English divine
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[Quote No.16723] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is a law of our humanity, that man must know good through evil." - Frederick William Robertson
(1816 - 1853) English divine
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[Quote No.16725] Need Area: Friends > General
"He that does good to another, does also good to himself; not only in the consequence, but also in the very act of doing it; for the consciousness of well doing is an ample reward." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4 B.C. - 65 A.D.) Roman stoic philosopher
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[Quote No.16727] Need Area: Friends > General
"Never did any soul do good, but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love, or gratitude, or bounty practiced but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act." - Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury
(1671 - 1713) English philosopher
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[Quote No.16728] Need Area: Friends > General
"To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as it lies in our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine." - Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury
(1671 - 1713) English philosopher
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[Quote No.16729] Need Area: Friends > General
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616) English poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.16730] Need Area: Friends > General
"To be doing good is man's most glorious task.
" - Sophocles
(495 B.C. - 406 B.C.) Greek tragic poet
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[Quote No.16731] Need Area: Friends > General
"It seems to me it is only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets." - Lord Alfred Tennyson
(1809 - 1892) English poet laureate
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[Quote No.16733] Need Area: Friends > General
"That is good which doth good." - Ralph Venning
(1620 - 1673) English nonconformist divine
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[Quote No.16734] Need Area: Friends > General
"Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can." - John Wesley
(1703 - 1791) English preacher, founder of Methodism
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[Quote No.16735] Need Area: Friends > General
"His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good." - John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807 - 1892) American poet
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