Mint 
JULY 22 
Virtue. 
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 
Like season’d timber never gives; 
But, though the whole world turns to coal, 
Then chiefly lives. 
Peorge JIbrbert. 
Virtue stands like the sun, and all which rolls around 
Drinks life, and light, and glory from her aspect. 
Pyron. 
JULY 23 
Obstacles to overcome. 
Mistletoe 
Our natures are like oil: compound us with anything. 
Yet still we strive to swim upon the top. 
^eaumont & ^Letcher. 
Come, my soul, let us reason together; 
Come, for the shadows darken ahead; 
Care and sorrow tighten the tether, 
Life’s sun through the mists grows dim and red. 
j3ARTON pREY. 
JULY 24 
Knight-errantry. 
Monkshood 
A true knight, 
Not yet mature, yet matchless, firm in word, 
Speaking in deeds, and deedless in his tongue; 
Not soon provoked, nor being provok’d, soon calm’d; 
His heart and hand both open, and both free; 
For what he has, he gives; what thinks, he shows; 
Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty, 
Nor dignifies an impure thought in breath. 
(Shakespeare. 
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