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170 LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION. of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the cart.
49. 'As the bee collects honey and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour, or scent, so let a sage dwell on earth.
62. "" These sons belong to me, and this wealth belongs to me," with such thoughts a fool is tormented. He himself does not belong to himself, how much less sons and wealth!
121, 122. 'Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me. Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not benefit me. Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled.
173. "He whose evil deeds are covered by good deeds, brightens up this world like the moon when she rises from behind the clouds.
223. Let a man overcome anger by love, evil by good, the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth?
252. "The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour's faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides, as a cheat hides the bad die from the player?
264. 'Not by tonsure does an undisciplined man who speaks falsehood become a saint: can a man be à saint who is still held captive by desires and greediness?
394. "What is the use of platted hair, O fool ?
See Rom. xii. 21.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with
good.'
| See Matt. vii. 3. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye??
