a safer guide than the promptings of human nature. [1]

To know that a deception dark as it is base has been

practised upon thee,—by those deemed at least indebted

friends whose welfare thou hast promoted,—and yet

not to avenge thyself, is to do good to thyself; is to take [5]

a new standpoint whence to look upward; is to be calm

amid excitement, just amid lawlessness, and pure amid

corruption.

To be a great man or woman, to have a name whose

odor fills the world with its fragrance, is to bear with [10]