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{{Hoyt quote | num = 1 | text = * * * his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. I. L. 162. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Tennyson) | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 2 | text = Since good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. V. L. 71. | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 3 | text = A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together. JohnO'Keefe—Sprigs of Laurel. Act II. Sc. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I know and love the good, yet ah! the worst pursue. Petrarch—To Laura in Life. Canzone XXI. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = Itidemque ut ssepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni. And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. Plautus—Captivi Prologue. XLIV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Bono ingenio me esse ornatam, quam auro multo mavolo. Aurum fortuna invenitur, natura ingenium donum. Bonam ego, quam beatam me esse nimio dici mavolo. A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate. Plauttts—Phasnulus. I. 2. 90. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Gute Menschen konnen sich leichter in schlimme hineindenken als diese injene. Good men can more easily see through bad men than the latter can the former. Jean Paul Richter—Hesperus. IV. You're good for Madge or good for Cis Or good for Kate, maybe: But what's to me the good of this While you're not good for me? Christina Rossetti—Jessie Cameron. St. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Esse quam videri bonus malebat. He preferred to be good, rather than to seem so. Sallust—Catlina. LIV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful. Sappho—Fragment. 101. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem. It is not goodness to be better than the very worst. Seneca—Epistoloe Ad Lucilium. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it; And nothing is at a like goodness still; For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, Dies in his own too much. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 7. L. 115. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out. | author = | work = Henry V. | place = Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 4. | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Your great goodness, out of holy pity, Absolv'd him with an axe. Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 263. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I am in this earthly world; where to do harm, Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly. Macbeth. ActrV. Sc. 2. L. 75. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = My meaning in saying he is a good man is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 14. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can, To all the people you can, In all the ways you can, As long as ever you can. Tombstone Inscription in Shrewsbury, England. Favorite of Mr. Moody. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For who is there but you? who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others. Socrates to Protagoras. See Plato. Jowett's trans. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Henry V}} under {{sc|War}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = How pleasant is Saturday night, When I've tried all the week to be good, Not spoken a word that is bad, And obliged every one that I could. Nancy Dennis Sproat—How Pleasant is Saturday Night. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = One person I have to make good : myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy —if I may. Stevenson—Christmas Sermon. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body. Swift—Polite Conversation. Dialogue H. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will Defects of doubt and taints of blood. | author = Tennyson | work = InMemoriam. LIV. 1. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Brooke, Milton, Thomson;. | place =  | note =  | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis only noble to be good. | author = Tennyson | work = Lady Clara Vere de Fere. Same in Juvenal—Satires. VIII. 24. | place = | note = | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = From seeming evil still educing good. | author = Thomson | work = Hymn. | place = L. 114. | note = | seealso = (See also {{sc|Tennyson}}) | topic = Goodness | page = 328 }}