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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Men, Evil, Nothing

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama

Happiness, Attitude, Yourself

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

Hope, Fear, Sorry

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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

Heart, Everything, Despite

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bad, Silence, Words

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa

Smile, Simple, Shall

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato

Bad, Find, Around

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

Evil, Above, Prove

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Bob Marley

Sad, Today, Tomorrow

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde

Beautiful, Ugly

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

True, Someone, Friend

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain

Live, Two, Months

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

Bad, Nothing, Thinking

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt

Country, Enough, Blood

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus Christ

Love, Rain, Father

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
Swami Vivekananda

God, Others, Hearts

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin

Bad, Lose, Reputation

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
Mae West

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi

Honest, Often, Progress

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller

Great, Give, Afraid

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers

Experience, Bad, Judgment

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington

Alone, Yourself, Bad

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