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A good deed is never lost.-He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed upon a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.Basil.

It seems to me it is only noble to be good. -Kind hearts are more than coronets.Tennyson.

There never was law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.-Bacon.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. -Johnson.

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as it lies in our power, 18 the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.-Shaftesbury.

Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went about continually doing good.-J. Hamilton.

He is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.-Lavater.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.-Bacon.

Your actions, in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.-Bernard.

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.- Whittier.

Live for something.-Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms 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, and you will never be forgotten.-Your name and your good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven. -Chalmers.

That is good which doth good.- Venning. Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can.-J. Wesley.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever inures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.-Goldsmith.

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Nothing is rarer than real goodness.Rochefoucauld.

Goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems. -Milton.

To an honest mind, the best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gives for doing good.-Addison.

GOOD SENSE. (See "COMMON SENSE.")

GOSPEL.-My heart has always assured and reassured me that the gospel of Christ must be a Divine reality.-The sermon on the mount cannot be merely a human production.-This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience.-The whole history of man proves it.-Daniel Webster.

All the gospels, in my judgment, date back to the first century, and are substantially by the authors to whom they are attributed.-Renan.

The shifting systems of false religion are continually changing their places; but the gospel of Christ is the same forever. While other false lights are extinguished, this true light ever shineth.-T. L. Cuyler.

So comprehensive are the doctrines of the gospel, that they involve all moral truth known by man; so extensive are the precepts, that they require every virtue, and forbid every sin. Nothing has been added, either by the labors of philosophy or the progress of human knowledge.

Did you ever notice that while the gospel sets before us a higher and more blessed heaven than any other religion, its hell is also deeper and darker than any other?Warren.

I search in vain in history to find the similar to Jesus Christ, or anything which can approach the gospel.-Neither history, nor humanity, nor the ages, nor nature, offer me anything with which I am able to compare or explain it.-There is nothing there which is not beyond the march of events and above the human mind.-What happiness it gives to those who believe it! What marvels there which those admire who reflect upon it!-Napoleon.

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.-Luther.

The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes the perfection of all philosophy, the interpreter of all revelations, and a key to all the seeming contradictions of truth in the physical and moral world.--Hugh Miller.

We can learn nothing of the gospel ex cept by feeling its truths. There are some

sciences that may be learned by the head, but the science of Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart.-Spurgeon.

The gospel in all its doctrines and duties appears infinitely superior to any human composition. It has no mark of human ignorance, imperfection, or sinfulness, but bears the signature of divine wisdom, authority, and importance, and is most worthy of the supreme attention and regard of all intelligent creatures.-Emmons.

There is not a book on earth so favorable to all the kind, and to all the sublime affections, or so unfriendly to hatred, persecution, tyranny, injustice, and every sort of malevolence as the gospel.-It breathes, throughout, only mercy, benevolence, and peace.-Beattie.

GOSSIP. (See "TATTLING.")

Gossip has been well defined as putting two and two together, and making it five. I hold it to be a fact, that if all persons knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.— Pascal.

News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be thought intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.-Zimmer

mann.

When of a gossipping circle it was asked "What are they doing?" the answer was, "Swapping lies."

There is a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.Sheridan.

Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.-Steele.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.Bancroft.

An empty brain and a tattling tongue are very apt to go together: the most silly and trivial items of news or scandal fill the former and are retailed by the latter.

Gossip, pretending to have the eyes of an Argus, has all the blindness of a bat.— Quida.

In private life I never knew any one interfere with other people's disputes but that he heartily repented of it.-Carlyle.

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou be

lievest, lest the greatest part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true. Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies will not easily be kept out.-Quarles. Gossip is the henchman of rumor and scandal.-Feuillet.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to it.-It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business.-J. G. Holland.

Tale bearers are just as bad as tale makers.-Sheridan.

Narrow-minded and ignorant persons talk about persons and not things; hence gossip is the bane and disgrace of so large a portion of society.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.-George Eliot.

GOVERNMENT. (See "STATESMAN

SHIP.")

They that govern most make least noise. In rowing a barge, they that do drudgery work, slash, puff, and sweat; but he that governs, sits quietly at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir.-Selden.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.-H. J. Van Dyke.

The less government we have the better -the fewer laws and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual.— Emerson.

Men well governed should seek after no other liberty, for there can be no greater liberty than a good government.-Sir W. Raleigh.

When men put their trust in God and in knowledge, the government of the majority is, in the end, the government of the wise and good.—Spalding.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.- Washing

ton.

The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.-Goethe.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.-Burke.

GOVERNMENT.

The less of government the better, if society be kept in peace and prosperity.Channing.

That is the most perfect government under which a wrong to the humblest is an affront to all.-Solon.

Government is not mere advice; it is authority, with power to enforce its laws.-Washington.

The principal foundation of all states is in good laws and good arms.-Machiavelli.

The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of bad men. -Plato.

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches.-Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All overmuch governing kills the self-help and energy of the governed.Wendell Phillips.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.-Sir W. Raleigh.

In all governments, there must of necessity be both the law and the sword: laws without arms would give us not liberty, but licentiousness; and arms without laws would produce not subjection, but slavery. -Colton.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.-Gladstone.

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.-Pope.

It is a dangerous thing to try new experiments in a government; men do not foresee the ill consequences that must happen, when they seek to alter the essential parts of it upon which the whole frame depends; for all governments are artificial things, and every part of them has a dependence one upon another.

It is an easy work to govern wise men, but to govern fools or madmen, a continual slavery. It is from the blind zeal and stupidity cleaving to superstition, it is from the ignorance, rashness, and rage attending faction, that so many mad and sanguinary evils have destroyed men, dissolved the best governments, and thinned the greatest nations. Colton.

Other things being equal, that is the best government which most liberally lets its subject or citizen alone.-Through the

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whole range of authority he governs best who governs least.-A. Phelps.

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.Burke.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms; armies cannot be maintained without pay; nor can the pay be produced except by taxes.-Tacitus.

The surest way to prevent seditions is to take away the matter of them; for if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.-Bacon.

It is necessary for a senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no senator can possibly be fit for his office.--Cicero.

He who forms the mind of a prince, and implants in him good principles, may see the precepts he had inculcated extend through a large portion of his subjects.Antigonus.

This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.-Abraham Lincoln.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of cerer ony is the most certain method of bringing either into contempt. The weak must have their inducements to admiration as well as the wise; and it is the business of a sensible government to impress all ranks with a sense of subordination, whether this be effected by a diamond, or a virtuous edict, a sumptuary law, or a glass necklace.-Goldsmith.

God demands of those who manage the affairs of government that they should be courageously true to the interests of the people, and the Ruler of the universe will require of them a strict account of their stewardship.-Grover Cleveland.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.— Burke.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.Every other government is a despotism.Thaddeus Stevens.

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