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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

Theodore C. Sorensen

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

William Shakespeare

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

Donald Rumsfeld

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld