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Beauteous soul! when a storm approaches thee be as fragrant as a
sweet-smelling flower.--_Richter._

Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but
misadventure.--_Alcott._

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and
people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.--_George
Eliot._

Men shut their doors against the setting sun.--_Shakespeare._

He that is down needs fear no fall.--_Bunyan._

~Moderation.~--Till men have been some time free, they know not how to use
their freedom. The natives of wine countries are generally sober. In
climates where wine is a rarity intemperance abounds. A newly liberated
people may be compared to a Northern army encamped on the Rhine or the
Xeres. It is said that, when soldiers in such a situation first find
themselves able to indulge without restraint in such a rare and
expensive luxury, nothing is to be seen but intoxication. Soon, however,
plenty teaches discretion; and after wine has been for a few months
their daily fare, they become more temperate than they had ever been in
their own country. In the same manner, the final and permanent fruits of
liberty are wisdom, moderation, and mercy.--_Macaulay._

The superior man wishes to be slow in his words, and earnest in his
conduct.--_Confucius._

Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but
the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or
confusion; as if the short spring days were an eternity.--_Thoreau._

It is a little stream which flows softly, but freshens everything along
its course.--_Madame Swetchine._

~Modesty.~--False modesty is the last refinement of vanity. It is a
lie.--_Bruyere._

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish
Modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that
is in it.--_Addison._

He of his port was meek as is a maid.--_Chaucer._

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the
deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly
undervalued by others.--_Hazlitt._

Modesty, who, when she goes, is gone forever.--_Landor._

Modesty is the conscience of the body.--_Balzac._

There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English
woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.--_Taine._

Virtue which shuns the day.--_Addison._

Modesty and the dew love the shade. Each shine in the open day only t