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The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.
The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good read more
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein read more
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,
Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]
Look around the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Look around the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
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.
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less read more
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it
from themselves.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it
from themselves.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. read more
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
