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Good or goods may refer to:

• as an adjective
  • expressing usefulness (of objects, "good for")
  • expressing expertise (of persons, "good at")
  • expressing morality or altruism (of persons)
• as an uncountable noun
  • Good and evil, in religion, ethics and philosophy
  • Form of the Good, in Platonic philosophy
• as a countable noun
  • Ethic or philosophic good, an object with ethic or philosophic value
  • Good (economics), an object or service
• a surname, see Good (surname) and Goode

In art and popular culture:

• "Good" (song), a song by American band Better Than Ezra
• Good (Goodshirt album), the 2001 album by the New Zealand band Goodshirt
• Good (Morphine album), the 1992 album by the American band Morphine
• Good Entertainment
• GOOD Music, Kanye West's hip hop and R&B record label
• Good Time Records
• Good (film), a 2008 film starring Viggo Mortensen
• A play by Cecil Philip Taylor upon which the film is based
• Goodness (band)

In company or brand names:

• Good (magazine), a U.S. cultural magazine
• Good Technology, a company which sells Push e-mail products for mobile phones
• Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)

See also

• Bad (disambiguation)

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• Some good we all can do; and if we do all that is in our power, however little that power may be, we have performed our part, and may be as near perfection as those whose influence extends over kingdoms, and whose good actions are felt and applauded by thousands.
  • Jane Bowdler On Christian Perfection

• What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,—generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.
  • John Greenleaf Whittier The Beautiful

• He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.
  • William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims (1682) no. 441

• For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called."
  • Robert South sermon Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected

• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
  • Alexander Pope Epilogue to the Satires dialogue I line 136

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

• Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
  • Edwin Hubbell Chapin, p. 286.

• How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.
  • George MacDonald, p. 286.

• Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.
  • Jules Michelet, p. 286.

• Be good my child, and let who will be clever;
  Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long;
  And so make life, death, and that vast forever
  One grand, sweet song.
  • Charles Kingsley, p. 286.

• Be not simply good; be good for something.
  • Henry David Thoreau, p. 286.

• No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and moulds the very thought and will of future generations.
  • Samuel Smiles, p. 286.

• For ever and ever, my darling, yes—
  Goodness and love are undying;
  Only the troubles and cares of earth
  Are winged from the first for flying.
  Our way we plough
  In the furrow "now;"
  But after the tilling and growing the sheaf;
  Soil for the root, but the sun for the leaf—
  And God keepeth watch forever.
  • Mary Mapes Dodge, p. 287.

• Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.
  • Charles Kingsley, p. 287.

• He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man "of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows."
  • James Freeman Clarke, p. 287.

• We cannot rekindle the morning beams of childhood; we cannot recall the noontide glory of youth; we cannot bring back the perfect day of maturity; we cannot fix the evening rays of age in the shadowy horizon; but we can cherish that goodness which is the sweetness of childhood, the joy of youth, the strength of maturity, the honor of old age, and the bliss of saints.
  • Henry Giles, p. 287.

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• A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
  • Basil of Caesarea

• A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
  • Bishop Hall

• Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love.
  • Johann Kaspar Lavater

• Favours end up as rights.
  • Leonid S. Sukhorukov

• It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.
  • Sophocles

• Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
  • Thomas Chalmers

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From BibleWiki

in man is not a mere passive quality, but the deliberate preference of right to wrong, the firm and persistent resistance of all moral evil, and the choosing and following of all moral good.

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