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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426723" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Virtues That Pay</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You argue — as sympathy governs your bias — <br>That Wisdom distributes the capon and crust, <br>Indulging the sinful, and stinting the pious, <br>Or starving the wicked, and fattening the just. <br>You are wrong to the Evil One; hear what I say <br>There are ruinous virtues, and virtues that pay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If your purpose be saving your soul and your bacon — <br>Fruition forthwith, and a sweet by-and-bye; <br>If your definite project stand clear and unshaken <br>A fatman on earth, and a seraph on high <br>In working this out let it still be your lay <br>There are ruinous virtues, and virtues that pay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such virtues are not of the workshop or cloister: <br>They test every act by the way it pans out; <br>They prompt you to seize on the world as your oyster, <br>Inserting our knife with a spirit devout. <br>For strait is the portal, and narrow the way <br>Representing the route of the virtues that pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men as good as yourself, or most probably better, <br>Have gone to the rear, after many a try — <br>A permanent wage-slave, a usurers' debtor <br>Reduced to the motto of 'Root, hog or die,' <br>But their handicap dates from an earlier day, <br>When they failed in espousals of virtues that pay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is nothing outre in the man with the bluey; <br>He started, like you, for a goal undisclosed <br>But never in life can he come within coo-ee — <br>Though he may reach a goal, (with the vowels transposed) <br>And a similar Sheol gapes fair in your way, <br>If you turn out deficient in virtues that pay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You must race, like St. Paul —you must race for the dollar — <br>No pause of compunction must ever intrude: <br>You must watch, you must pray, never missing a collar <br>The course is severe, and the company good. <br>You must reverence the Thrift-God, and earnestly pray <br>To be grounded and built up in virtues that pay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By this means you will serve the Almighty and Mammon, <br>And die in a state of salvation and wealth; <br>When the clergy, without a suggestion of gammon, <br>Will furnish your soul with a clean bill of health. <br>So you'll sweep through the gates in your spotless array <br>A shining example of Virtues that pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joseph+Furphy">Joseph Furphy</a><div class=q>
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That Wisdom distributes the capon and crust, 
Indulging the sinful, and stinting the pious, 
Or starving the wicked, and fattening the just. 
You are wrong to the Evil One; hear what I say 
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