.. the body may wear a worldly guise, the heart mount high
to things celestial.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
Full of truth and compassion and mercy and long-suffering.--Jataka.
Uprightness is his delight.--Tevijja-sutta.
Making ... virtue always his first aim.--Fa-kheu-pi-u.
An example for all the earth.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
What he hears he repeats not there, to raise a quarrel against the
people here.--Tevijja-sutta.
He injures none by his conversation.--Samanna-phala-sutta.
Walk in the path of duty, do good to your brethren, and work no evil
towards them.--Avadana Sataka.
Aiming to curb the tongue, ... aiming to benefit the
world.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
Intent upon benefiting your fellow-creatures.--Katha Sarit Sagara.
Health is the greatest of gifts, contentment the best of
riches.--Dhammapada.
If thou be born in the poor man's hovel, yet have wisdom, then wilt
thou be like the lotus-flower growing out of the mire.--Jitsu-go-kiyo.
He that is rich but is not contented endures the pain of
poverty.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
The words of Buddha, even when stern, yet ... as full of pity as the
words of a father to his children.--Questions of King Milinda.
Overcoming all enemies by the force (of his
love).--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
How great his pity and his love toward those who opposed his claims,
neither rejoicing in their defeat, nor yet exulting in his own
success!--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
The Buddha has mercy even on the meanest thing.--Cullavagga.
He that ... would wait upon me,[3] let him wait on the
sick.--Mahavagga.
[Footnote 3: Buddha.]
The Buddha, O king, magnifies not the offering of gifts to himself,
but rather to whosoever ... is deserving.--Questions of King Milinda.
If you desire to honor Buddha, follow the example of his patience and
long-suffering.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
Radiant with heavenly pity, lost in care
For those he knew not, save as fellow-lives.
--Sir Edwin Arnold.
Who that hears of him, but yearns with love?--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
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