54: Judging A Man With Virtues & Vices

“It is pleasing to human vanity to believe that one suffers because of one’s virtue; but not until a man has extricated every sickly, bitter, and impure though from his mind, and washed every sinful stain from his soul, can he be in a position to know and declare this his suffering are a result of his good, and not of his his bad qualities;”- James Allen