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Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 God generally gives spiritual blessings and deliverances as He does temporal ones; that is, by the mediation of an active and vigorous industry. The fruits of the earth are the gift of God, and we pray for them as such; but yet we plant, and we sow, and we plough, for all that; and the hands which are sometimes lift up in prayer must at other times be put to the plough, or the husbandman must expect no crop. Everything must be effected in the way proper to its nature, with the concurrent influence of the divine grace, not to supersede the means, but to prosper and make them effectual.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.