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Example sentences for "doing good"

  • It would be a moral triumph for you, Egbert, to go back there as a Christian man and with the honest purpose of doing good.

  • The essence of virtue is in doing good to others, while what is good may be one thing in one society, and its contrary in another.

  • For instance as we are not competent judges, what is upon the whole for the good of the world, there may be other immediate ends appointed us to pursue, besides that one of doing good or producing happiness.

  • I gave them credit too for unlimited capacities to take in and appreciate the truth, and for any amount of ability to use it, when received, in doing good to others.

  • I employed all I received in doing good, hardly spending enough on myself and family to purchase the barest necessaries.

  • I wrote against the waste of God's money by professing Christians in luxurious living and vain show, and exhorted the rich to employ their surplus wealth in doing good.

  • Colonel Shaw was a kind of lay minister, who preached the Gospel gratuitously, and spent his time and property in doing good.

  • I thought the money wasted on drink and hurtful luxuries would be better spent in doing good.

  • I am quite sure that movement has been doing good in this town, and is doing good still.

  • The temperance movement is doing good, and we have before us a plain proof of it.

  • She is now under my sole influence, and I hope we shall attain our ends; but you see, my dear daughter, it is never without crosses and difficulties that we succeed in doing good!

  • Hardy be, to spend so much money in doing good!

  • Thy litanies, sweet offices Of love and gratitude; Thy sacramental liturgies, The joy of doing good.

  • Mine be the joy of soul-communion, The sense of spiritual strength renewed, The reverence for the pure and holy, The dear delight of doing good.

  • Follow with reverent steps the great example Of Him whose holy work was "doing good;" So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple, Each loving life a psalm of gratitude.

  • May God make you good, and to delight in doing good to others.

  • Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter?

  • He thus pours forth his vexation in writing to a friend: "Very grievous it is to be standing here tinkering when we might be doing good service to the cause of African civilization, and that on account of insatiable greediness.

  • I live as a Brahmacharin with matted locks on my head, impelled by the desire of doing good to all creatures.

  • From desire of doing good to creatures, Daksha, in the first instance, created food.

  • Indeed, by doing good deeds on earth, people sport in joy in heaven, with the deities.

  • Like the gift of water, Yama, from a desire of doing good to the Pitris, applauds the gift of lamps to light dark places.

  • Thy offspring, ever engaged in doing good acts, will reside in the world of men.

  • I should say, a country gentleman living on his own property and among his own tenants, employing the poor around him, holds a position in which he has the least temptation to do wrong, and the most opportunities of doing good.

  • I know we are not in England, my dear uncle, and that you have lost one of your greatest pleasures--that of doing good, and making all happy around you.

  • Their prayers are necessarily unselfish, unless we regard as selfish the joys, to them great indeed, which result from the delight of doing good.

  • If allowed to stand, the liquid would injure instead of doing good, and even if artificially warmed would not be so beneficial as the new milk.

  • He should show how the authors of such actions might have conducted themselves and succeeded in gaining the celebrity which they sought, by doing good instead of harm to the age and country where they acquired their fame.

  • Notwithstanding his age and infirmities, he even solicited to be farther employed in extending the career of discovery, without a prospect of any other reward than the pleasure of doing good to mankind.

  • Whether it be destined to survive its author, is a question that gives me no other concern than what arises from the most pure and ardent desire of doing good to my country.

  • His deepest researches, and most favourite studies, are willingly interrupted for any opportunity of doing good, by his counsel or his riches.

  • By doing nothing, and by knowing nothing, no power of doing good can be obtained.

  • The watchman continued: "Life is to me nothing unless I can employ it in doing good.

  • And there is a joy in doing good, and in dispensing the bounties with which we are blest, that hath no equal in the household of man.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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