“While the passion of some is to shine, of some to govern, and of others to accumulate, let one great passion alone influence our breasts, the passion which reason ratifies, which conscience approves, which Heaven inspires, — that of being and doing good.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 121.
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Source: Introduction to 1961 edition of Sceptical Essays (1961)