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6. _Teaching compared to Seed_.
"But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit; some an
hundred-fold, some sixty-fold, some thirty-fold." (Matt xiii. 8.)
Seneca (Letter 38): "_Words must be sown like seed; which, although it
be small, when it hath found a suitable ground, unfolds its strength,
and from very small size is expanded into the largest increase. Reason
does the same.... The things spoken are few; but if the mind have
received them well, they gain strength and grow_."
7. _All Men are Sinners_.
"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is
not in us." (1 John i. 8.)
Seneca (_On Anger_, i. 14, ii. 27): "_If we wish to be just judges of
all things, let us first persuade ourselves of this:--that there is not
one of us without fault.... No man is found who can acquit himself; and
he who calls himself innocent does so with reference to a witness, and
not to his conscience_."
8. _Avarice_.
"The love of money is the root of all evil." (1 Tim. vi. 10.)
Seneca (_On Tranquillity of Soul_, 8): "_Riches ... the greatest source
of human trouble_.
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