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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.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.
Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.
Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.
That good diffused may more abundant grow.
That good diffused may more abundant grow.
For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake,
Do all the good you can,
To all the people you read more
For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake,
Do all the good you can,
To all the people you can,
In all the ways you can,
As long as ever you can.
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.]
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.