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happiness. Ergo, let our watchword be: "Omnia ad major em Dei gloriam!" "All for the greater glory of God!"

"Know then this truth — enough for man to know: Virtue alone is happiness below." — Pope.

"Happiness and virtue are the same." — Francis.

"There can be no harmony in our being except our happiness coincides with our duty." — Whewell.

"Chain down some passion; do some generous deed;
Teach ignorance to see; or grief to smile;
Correct thy friend; befriend thy greatest foe;
With warm heart and confidence divine,
Spring up and lay strong hold on Him who made thee."

— Young.

            "All who joy would win
Must share it — happiness was born a twin."

— Byron.

2. — Charity the Greatest Thing in the World

"If I should have all faith, so that I could remove all mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing" (i Cor. xiii. 2).

"Now there remain faith, hope, and charity — these three: but the greatest of these is charity" (1 Cor. xiii. 12).