goodness,

While the Italian word would normally be translated into English as “virtue,” and would ordinarily convey the conventional connotation of moral goodness,

Niccolò Machiavelli Nederman, Cary 2009

Well, in the first place, there isn't anyone saying that, since "thinking you're Napoleon" doesn't make it so, and in the second place why SHOULDN'T a child of the universe be able to come home? my goodness,

Intelligence is surrender to the ordinary 2007

First should a tongue, I doubt not, of old so deadly to goodness,

Poems and Fragments 2006

First should a tongue, I doubt not, of old so deadly to goodness,

Poems and Fragments 2006

You writ to the pope against the king: your goodness,

The Life of King Henry the Eighth 2004

Usually, in our personal lives, our family lives, our work live and a nation's life, after a series of difficult years, when times get good you want to say, thank goodness,

Remarks By The President On Patients Bill In Louisville ITY National Archives 1998

You know, when you're 50 years old and you've worked for the same company for 25 years, and you've got two kids about to go to college, and you get laid off and you think, my goodness,

President Remarks At Xavier University ITY National Archives 1996

"What have you done?" you'll find at last, thank goodness,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-01 Various

First should a tongue, I doubt not, of old so deadly to goodness,

The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness,

IX. On Reading the Bible (II) 1920