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is in being good.--SOPHOCLES. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.--POPE. Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love.--LAVATER. 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.--SOUTH. A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends. --BISHOP HALL. 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.--CHALMERS. He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.--WILLIAM PENN. 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.--WHITTIER. 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.--BOWDLER. GOVERNMENT.--The administration of government, like a guardianship, ought to be directed to the good of those who confer and not of those who receive the trust.--CICERO. Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things. --SENECA. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable.--MADISON. The best government is not that which renders men the happiest, but that which renders the greatest number happy.--DUCLOS. No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades,--that of government.--SOCRATES. In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.--BEECHER. The proper function of a government is t
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