No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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It ignores situations where systemic issues outweigh individual goodness.
Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in al…
Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where anothe…
One does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Only those live who do good.