Man
Illustration★★Unreliability of a Bad, During the course of my life, I have acquired some knowledge of men and manners, in active life, and amidst occupations the most various. From that knowledge, and from all my experience, I now protest that I never knew a man that was bad fit for any service that was good. There was always some disqualifying ingredient mixing with the compound and spoiling it. The man seems paralytic on that side: his muscles there have lost their tone and natural properties; they cannot move.
In short, the accomplishment of anything good is a physical impossibility in such a man. He could not if he would, and it is not more certain than that he would not if he could, do a good or a virtuous action, Burke. 10,404. MAN Well-armed, The bark of a tree contains an oily juice, which, when it is in greater plenty than can be exhaled by the sun, renders the plant evergreen.
Such is the state of the man whose virtue is proof against the scorching heats of temptation and persecution: he is “like a green olive tree” in the courts of the temple, “his leaf shall not wither.” Bishop Horne.
The point
A bad man is unfit for any good service, while a virtuous man withstands temptation like an evergreen tree.