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have the eyes of a lynx or an Argus, you are guided by a 

 secret and unerring principle, delighting in everything that is 

 beneficial to you, and avoiding everything that may be hurt- 

 ful ; you are carried on by a hidden instinct to preserve 

 yourselves and to propagate your species ; you obey in all 

 your actions, works, and motions the dictates and suggestions 

 of Nature, without the least repugnance or contradiction. 



" The colds of winter and the heats of summer are equally 

 incapable of molesting you. A serene or a clouded sky is 

 indifferent to you. Let the earth abound in fruit or be 

 cursed with scarcity, it has no influence on your welfare. 

 You live secure in rains, thunders, lightnings, and earth- 

 quakes ; you have no concerns in the blossoms of spring or 

 in the glowings of summer, in the fruits of autumn, or in the 

 frosts of winter. You are not solicitous about hours or days, 

 months or years, the variableness of the weather, or the 

 change of seasons." 



At the conclusion of Saint Anthony's sermon the fishes, 

 every angler will be proud to hear, bowed their heads with 

 becoming humility, moving their bodies up and down as if 

 approving of the good words that had been spoken. 



