Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
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