My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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“Loving-Kindness Is the Better Part of Goodness.”

“Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.  It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists and makes it a little less difficult to practice those minor virtues of self-control and self-restraint, patience, discipline, and tolerance, which are the passive and not very exhilarating elements of goodness.  Goodness is the only value that seems in this world of …