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Show PERFECTION. To be always a man of rule and duty, to follow with fidelity to the end the way of honor, to renew each day, without weariness and weakness, the laboring struggle of a soul wrestling with itself, to draw from the sacrifice of the eve the force necessary to accomplish that of the morrow, to attach one good work to another like the links of a chain, of which each one is joined to that which precedes it and supports that which followest, to accomplish in silence this slow and prolonged immolation of the senses to the spirit, of reason, of faith, of interest to duty, of passion to law, of self will to authority, of our own welfare to the general good, of one's whole existence to God - this is true perfection of life. |