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npAKE heed what you say, sir! 
* An hundred honest men! why, if there were 
So many i’ th’ city, ’twere enough to forfeit 
Their charter. —Shirley. 
AN honest man is still an unmov’d rock, 
^ ^ Wash’d Avhiter, but not shaken with the shock: 
Whose heart conceives no sinister device; 
Fearless he plays with flames, and treads on ice. 
— Davenport. 
T TIS words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; 
11 His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; 
His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart, 
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. 
— Shakespeare. 
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O be honest, as this world goes, 
Is to be one pick’d out of ten thousand. 
— Shakespeare. 
AN honest soul is like a ship at sea 
1 That sleeps at anchor when the ocean’s calm; 
But when she rages, and the wind blows high, 
He cuts his way with skill and majesty. 
—Beaumont and Fletcher. 
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HE man who consecrates his hours 
By vig’rous effort, and an honest aim, 
At once he draws the sting of life and death; 
He walks with nature, and her paths are peace. 
— Touno-. 
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j-/ UN ARIA, from the Latin luna, the moon, has two varieties: 
_^the rediviva, a handsome perennial, with light-purple flowers, 
;"and rather rare in the United States; and the biennis, a large 
biennial with lilac-colored flowers. Both are natives of Ger- 
'^^S^mafly, and rece i ye d the name from the distinguished Swiss 
^ ^ botanist, DeCandolle, on account of their transparent moon¬ 
shaped silicles or pods,' which are the most attractive feature of the 
plant. The name has a special appropriateness not altogether arising 
from the shape of the pods, which is more nearly oval, but from the 
^additional peculiarity of the silvery separating tissues or dissepiments. 
As the silicles remain unchanged, they are quite an acquisition to a 
winter bouquet if plucked and carefully dried in autumn. 
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