Goodness

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GOODNESS: Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
GOODNESS: He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. (William Penn, English nobleman, writer, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)
GOODNESS: What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. (Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)
GOODNESS: Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good. (Albert Schweitzer, French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)
GOODNESS: We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found. (Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French historian, geologist, and philosopher, 1939-2017)
GOODNESS: Be not simply good; be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
GOODNESS: What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal. (Albert Pine, U.S. author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain, 1861-1937)