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Human Virtues. 
f N tilling our garden, says St. Francis de Sales, we cannot but admire 
the fresh innocence and purity of the little Strawberry, because, al¬ 
though it creeps along the ground, and is continually crushed by serpents t 
lizards, and other venomous reptiles, yet it does not imbibe the slightest 
impression of poison, or the smallest malignant quality, which, indeed, is 
a true sign that it has no affinity with poison.—And so it is with human 
virtues, which although they are in a heart that is base, earthy, and en¬ 
grossed by sin, are nevertheless infected in no way by its malice, being of 
a nature so frank and innocent that they cannot be corrupted by the society 
of iniquity. 
Virtue, Bacon says, is like precious odors, most fragrant , when they 
are incensed or crushed . 
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The cane or plant from whose juice sugar is oh* 
tained; Sacchcirum officinarum. 
Industry. 
01) has connected the labor which is essential to the bodily sustenance 
with the pleasures which are healthiest for the heart; and while he 
made the ground stubborn, he made its herbage fragrant, and its blossoms 
fair. 
So, honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment 
and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it. 
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have 
but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. 
