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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life’s latest sands are its sands of gold! Julia C. R. Dorr—To the “Bouquet Club.”

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Dryden—Juvenal. Satire X. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. Epictetus—Fragments. Long’s trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For all their luxury was doing good. Samuel Garth—Cleremont. L. 149. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange, Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst. A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. Goethe—Faust. Prolog im Himmel. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And learn the luxury of doing good. | author = Goldsmith | work = The Traveller. L. 22. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Impell’d with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view, That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies. | author = Goldsmith | work = The Traveller. L. 25. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = If goodness leade him not, yet wearinesse May tosse him to my breast. | author = Herbert | work = The Pulley. St. 4. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat. Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. Horace—Epistles. I. 16. 40. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content. Victor Hugo—God whose Gifts in Gracious Flood. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad. Douglas Jerrold—Jerrold’s Wit. A Charitable Man. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? John. I. 46. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = How near to good is what is fair! Ben Jonson—Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Rari quippe boni: numero vix sunt totidem quot Thebarum portæ, vel divitis ostia Nili. The good, alas! are few: they are scarcely as many as the gates of Thebes or the mouths of the Nile. Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 26. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song. | author = Charles Kingsley | work = Farewell. To C. E. G. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever; Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song. | author = Charles Kingsley | work = Farewell. Version in ed. of 1889. Also in Life. Ed. by his wife. Vol. I. P. 487, with line: “And so make Life, Death, and that vast For Ever.”

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Weiss Dass alle Länder gute Menschen tragen. Know this, that every country can produce good men. Lessing—Nathan der Weise. II. .	 32 Segnius homines bona quam mala sentiunt. Men have less lively perception of good than of evil. Livy—Annales. XXX. 21. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in. | author = Lowell | work = Among my Books. Second Series. Garfield. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Si veris magna paratur Fama bonis, et si successu nuda remoto Inspicitur virtus, quicquid laudamus in ullo Majorum, fortuna fuit. If honest fame awaits the truly good; if setting aside the ultimate success of excellence alone is to be considered, then was his fortune as proud as any to be found in the records of our ancestry. Lucan—Pharsalia. IX. 593. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The crest and crowning of all good, Life’s final star, is Brotherhood. Edwin Markham—Brotherhood. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-governed and wise appetite. | author = Milton | work = Comus. L. 702. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 327 }}