is absolutely worthless. No gentleness of disposition, no willingness
to help other people, no habits of industry, no freedom from vicious
practices, can make up for want of truthfulness of heart and life.
Some persons think that if they work long and hard and deny themselves
for the good of others, and do many generous and noble acts and have
a good reputation, they can even tell lies sometimes and not be much
blamed. But they forget that reputation is not character; that one may
have a very good reputation and a very bad character; they forget that
the reputation is the outside, what we see of each other, while the
character is what we are in the heart.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
――Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).
――Printer’s, punctuation, and spelling inaccuracies were silently
corrected.
――Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
――Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.