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Excerpt from A Sermon
When we look at a character and call it good, we mean a character where goodness is, or has been, the predominant motive, the ruling desire, the constant thought, and the regulator of a large majority of the deeds; specks of course in all characters, for there are specks found in the sun; crevices somewhere, perhaps, for the noblest of mountains have their seams, and rents, and openings; with varied shades, per haps, for the giant hills have several signs of beauty, as they shift their colors, according to the time of day, or the tone of the air, or the perfection, or the imperfection of the eye that looks at them; yet, these characters that we call good, like the sun, or like the mountains, are really great, and grand, and beautiful, and holy, and truly loom up in massive splendor, and evoke the reverent thankfulness of all who study their graceful proportions.
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