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Have you always preserved vour integrity amidst prosperity, and 
enjoyed life in temperance and moderation? or has life been with you a 
mere feast of selfishness , without care or thought for others ? 
What have you learned from tried and adversity ? Have you learned 
patience, submission, and trust in God ? if you have, you must be wise ? 
“For the best way unto discretion is 
The way that leads us by adversitie, 
And men are better, shew’d what is a miserie 
By th’ expert finger of calamitie, 
Than they can be, with all that fortune brings, 
Who never shewes them the true face of things.” 
— Daniel. 
He that has never known adversity, is but half acquainted with 
others, or with himself; for constant success shows us but one side of the 
world. 
©ramble. 
One of several different species of the genus Rubus, including the 
raspberry and blackberry; hence, any rough, prickly shrub. 
Pope says: 
Envy. 
“Envy, to which the ignoble mind’s a slave, 
Is emulation in the learn’d or brave.” 
TTND so it is. Only the small and essentially mean nature finds pleas- 
J-±- ure in the disappointment, and annoyance at the success, of others. 
There are, unhappily for themselves, persons so constituted that 
they have not the heart to be generous. 
