May 22:
May 22d. To concentrate upon a few great correspondences, to oppose to the death the perpetual petty larceny of our life by trifles -- these are the conditions for the highest and happiest life. . . . The penalty of evading self-denial also is just that we get the lesser instead of the larger good. The punishment of sin is inseparably bound up with itself. Natural Law, Mortification, p.196.

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