Careful Words

godliness (n.)

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:

England hath need of thee!

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Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart:

So didst thou travel on life's common way

In cheerful godliness.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): London, 1802.

  Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

John Wesley (1703-1791): Sermon xciii. On Dress.