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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as
before;
The evil is null, is read more
There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as
before;
The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;
What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more;
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would read more
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
For all their luxury was doing good.
For all their luxury was doing good.
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.
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.
What's the good of it? for whose advantage?
[Lat., Cui bono?]
What's the good of it? for whose advantage?
[Lat., Cui bono?]