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108 Frankness; Bpuden&; Simplicity
"If we sit down at set of sun,
And count the things that we have done,
And counting find
One self-denying act, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind,
That fell like sunshine where it went,
Then we may count the day well spent."
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E CAN easily manage our affairs, if we only take
m each day the burden appointed for it. But the
load will be too heavy for us if we add to its weight the
burden of to-morrow before we are called to bear it.
58. - $rankness ; Prubence ;
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HERE is a fnznkws which is brutal, and I detest
6 it; a frankness which is indscreet, and I fear it;
a foolish frankness, and I pity it. There is also a frankness
which is opportune, delicate and good: honor
to it !- ABB~
ROUX.
"Be ye, therefore, wise as serpents and simple as
doves" (Matt. x. 16).
"Prudence," says SO. Vincent de Paul, "prompts us
to speak with due caution, so as to suit our discourse
to the time, place, and subject. It causes us to abstain
from such remarks as offend God or pur neighbor, as
well as those which tend to our own praise, or other
evil consequences.
" In regard to szmplicity, the companion of prudence,
we should be simple in our affections, intentions, actions,
and words; we should do what we find to do without
artifice or guile, making our exterior conformable to
our interior; we should have no other object but Goo
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