A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
—Bishop Hall
Showing posts with label goodness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goodness. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Monday, April 22, 2019
Post #2811
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
—Martial
—Martial
Friday, April 19, 2019
Post #2810
He that does good to another man does also good to himself, not only in the consequence, but in the very act of dorng it; for the consciousness of well-doing is an ample reward.
—Seneca
—Seneca
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Monday, September 17, 2018
Monday, April 16, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
Monday, November 02, 2015
Post #1936
Count That Day Lost
If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went --
Then you may count that day well spent.
But if, through all the livelong day,
You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay --
If, through it all
You've nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face--
No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost --
Then count that day as worse than lost.
—George Eliot
If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went --
Then you may count that day well spent.
But if, through all the livelong day,
You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay --
If, through it all
You've nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face--
No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost --
Then count that day as worse than lost.
—George Eliot
Friday, October 30, 2015
Post #1935
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
—A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
—A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Post #960
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your own riches but to reveal to him his own.
—Benjamin Disraeli
—Benjamin Disraeli
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Post #878
Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
—Shari R. Barr
—Shari R. Barr
Monday, August 13, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Post #7
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
—Erma Bombeck
—Erma Bombeck
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · No Talent, but yet a Character