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Doing good

Quotes

• But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
  • The Bible, II Thessalonians 3:13–14.

• [Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.
  • Attributed to Desiderius Erasmus by Senator J. William Fulbright, "In Need of a Consensus," Penrose Memorial Lecture, delivered to the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1961. Proceedings of the Society, August 1961, p. 352. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).

• Tracy: So, how you doing over there, Theo Huxtable.
  Toofer: I'm doing good.
  Tracy: Nah-uh. Superman does good; you're doing well. You need to study your grammar, son.
  • Tina Fey, "The Aftermath", 30 Rock episode 1.2 (October 18, 2006).

• Do all the good you can,
  By all the means you can,
  In all the ways you can,
  In all the places you can,
  At all the times you can,
  To all the people you can,
  As long as ever you can.
  • John Wesley, "Rule of Conduct," Letters of John Wesley, ed. George Eayrs, p. 423, footnote (1915).

• Through this toilsome world, alas!
  Once and only once I pass;
  If a kindness I may show,
  If a good deed I may do
  To a suffering fellow man,
  Let me do it while I can.
  No delay, for it is plain
  I shall not pass this way again.
  • Author unknown, "I Shall Not Pass This Way Again", reported in The Best Loved Poems of the American People, ed. Hazel Felleman, p. 77 (1936).