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Twenty-fifth Day

So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Who is in heaven (Matt. v. 16).

Therefore, let us follow after the things that are of peace, and keep the things that are of edification — one toward another (Rom. xiv. 19).

Let your modesty be known to all men (Phil. iv. 5).

Twenty-sixth Day

NEVER suffer pride to reign in thy mind or in thy words; for from it all perdition took its beginning (Tob. iv. 14).

The foolish things of the world hath God chosen that He may confound the wise (i Cor. i. 27).

Pride is hateful before God and men (Ecclus. x. 7).

Twenty-seventh Day

BE angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your anger (Eph. iv. 26, 31).

Envy and anger shorten a man's days (Ecclus. iv. 35).

Be not as a lion in thy house, terrifying them of thy household, and oppressing them that are under thee (Ecclus. iv. 35).

Be not quickly angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool (Eccles. vii. 10).