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maxim[7][19] = "If we wish to help our neighbor, we must reserve neither place, hour, or season, for ourselves."; | maxim[7][19] = "If we wish to help our neighbor, we must reserve neither place, hour, or season, for ourselves."; | ||
maxim[7][20] = "Avoid every kind of singularity, for it is generally the hot-bed of pride, especially spiritual pride."; | maxim[7][20] = "Avoid every kind of singularity, for it is generally the hot-bed of pride, especially spiritual pride."; | ||
maxim[7][21] = "A man must not, however, abstain from doing a good work merely to | maxim[7][21] = "A man must not, however, abstain from doing a good work merely to get out of the way of a temptation to vainglory."; | ||
maxim[7][22] = "The love of God makes us do great things."; | maxim[7][22] = "The love of God makes us do great things."; | ||
maxim[7][23] = "We may distinguish three kinds of vain-glory; the first we may call <i>mistress</i>; that is, when vain-glory goes before our works, and we work for the sake of it: the second we may call <i>companion</i>; that is, when a man does not do a work for the sake of vain-glory, but feels complacency in doing it: the third we may call <i>servant</i>; that is, when vain-glory rises in our work, but we instantly repress it. Above all things never let vain-glory be <i>mistress</i>."; | maxim[7][23] = "We may distinguish three kinds of vain-glory; the first we may call <i>mistress</i>; that is, when vain-glory goes before our works, and we work for the sake of it: the second we may call <i>companion</i>; that is, when a man does not do a work for the sake of vain-glory, but feels complacency in doing it: the third we may call <i>servant</i>; that is, when vain-glory rises in our work, but we instantly repress it. Above all things never let vain-glory be <i>mistress</i>."; | ||
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