And thus the act of the will is not fixed on something good: since to will to do something when it ought not to be done, is not to will something good.
Since, therefore, everything, inasmuch as it is being and substance, is a good, it must needs be that every inclination is to something good.
Physically, the passions are good, since they are the acts of natural powers, or the perfection and complement of something good in itself.
This kind of fear is slavish, for it makes one do something good unwillingly, like a slave forced to labor against his wishes, whereas God is pleased only with service that comes from a willing spirit (I Par.
The motive of fear, however, is something good; for one dreads evil on account of some good one wishes to obtain or retain.
It is not reasonable to be grieved at the prosperity of others, since prosperity is something good and an object of joy rather than of sorrow.
Passions are not sinful in themselves; but they are blameworthy in so far as they are applied to something evil, just as they deserve praise in so far as they are applied to something good.
Hence to persist long in something good until it is accomplished belongs to a special virtue.
Now reverence and love of God are desirable as something good essentially.
Because the good and the true are really convertible, it follows that the good is apprehended by the intellect as something true; while the true is desired by the will as something good.
But, again, truth is something good: forasmuch as the intellect is a thing, and truth its end.
Truth and good include one another; for truth is something good, otherwise it would not be desirable; and good is something true, otherwise it would not be intelligible.
Maybe I did something bad so I could do something good; and now I'm trying to do enough good to take out all the taste of the bad.
Even as she did so, she almost smiled--she was thinking: was this another case when she was doing something bad to do something good?
She was thinking of her question to Harold: "If you do something bad to do something good, which is it, good or bad?
Most people deceive themselves by giving overmuch praise or glory to the latter, or by thinking that there is something good in themselves.
I give it," said she, "to Dagoucin, for he has become so thoughtful that I think he must have made ready to tell us something good.
He had been right in his conjecture, Slim was "the runt of something good.
Invariably he injected the same comment into his speculations regarding his partner: "The runt of something good.
The runt of something good--that feller," Bruce added, with somber eyes.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "something good" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
