There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as Justice. Most of the other virtues are the virtues of created Beings, or accommodated to our nature as we are men. Justice is that which is practised by God himself, and to be practised in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and Omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it. The one, to discover every degree of uprightness or iniquity in thoughts, words and actions. The other, to measure out and impart suitable rewards and punishments. As to be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of a man. Such an one who has the publick administration in his hands, acts like the representative of his Maker, in recompencing the virtuous, and punishing the offender.
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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
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The rapt One, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:...
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine
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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.
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It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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