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Show Eggap on by any loss. There is no penalty to virtue Compengation no penalty to wisdom; they are prope additions of being. In a virtuous action, propetly am; in a virtuous act, [ add to th world; I plant into deserts conquered fro Chaos and Nothing, and see the darknes receding on the limits of the horizon. Ther can be no excess to love, none to knowledge non to beauty whe these attri butes are considered in -the purest sense The soul refuses all limits. It affirms in ma always an Optimism, never a Pessimism q His life is a progress, and not a station His instinct is trust. Ou instinct use "more" and "less" in application to man always of the presence of the soul, and no of its absence; the brave man is greate than the coward; the true, the benevolent the wise, is more a man, and not less, tha the fool and knave. There is, therefore, n tax on the good of virtue, for that is th incoming of God himself, or absolute existence, without any comparative. All external good has its tax, and if it came withou 3 Digital mage© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts reserved |