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“No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.' 'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it?”

Book:Manalive

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“And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mother's laps, And here you are the mothers' laps." - Song of Myself: 6”

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Author:Walt Whitman

“The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by something unseen.”

Mystery Divine Goodness

Book:The Etched City

Source: The Etched City

“But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.”

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Book:The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her.”

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Book:The Birth House

Source: The Birth House

“In the sense of Lewis, I am a moderately 'good man'". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

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Book:The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

Source: The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

“I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light is beautiful; but light can't hide treasures like the darkness can.”

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Author:C. JoyBell C.

“We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole”

Goodness Oneness Seneca

Author:Seneca

“Though the sky may be cloudy and the world may look a little gray, I don’t worry at all. I know the Sun will sing its golden song—today’s forecast is love.”

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