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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
All good things are wild, and free.
All good things are wild, and free.
For all their luxury was doing good.
For all their luxury was doing good.
What good I see humbly I seek to do,
And live obedient to the law, in trust
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What good I see humbly I seek to do,
And live obedient to the law, in trust
That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
For the cause that lacks assistance,
The wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
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For the cause that lacks assistance,
The wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.