Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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.
Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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