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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
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Chinese proverb, as quoted in The Homiletic Review, Vol. 90 (1925), p. 363

 

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Though it be so that this deed be truly taken for the general Man, yet it excludeth not the special. For what our good Lord will do by His poor creatures, it is now unknown to me.
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Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

 

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