unless he bad before suffered himself to be deceived by her favours.

4. Anger may glance in the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.

5. None more impatiently suffer injuries, than those that are most forward in doing them.

6. By revenging an injury a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior.

7. To err is human; to forgive, divine.

8. A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.

9. The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself.

10. We should take a prudent care for the future, but so as to enjoy the present. It is no part of wisdom to be miserable to day, because we may happen to be more so to-morrow. 11. To mourn without measure, is folly, not to mourn at all, insensibility.

12. Some would be thought to do great things, who are but tools and instruments; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ, when he only blew the bellows.

13. Though a man may become learned by another's learning, he never can be wise but by his own wisdom. 14. He who wants good sense is unhappy in having learning; he has thereby more ways of exposing himself.

15. It is ungenerous to give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing, who perhaps may excel us in many.

16. No object is more pleasing to the eye, than the sight of a man whom you have obliged; nor any music so agreeable to the ear, as the voice of one who owns you his benefactor.

17. The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery; the only benefit of which is, that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed what we ought to be.

18. The character of the person who commends you, is to be considered before you set a value upon his esteem. The wise man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world, him who is most wealthy.

19. The temperate man's pleasure's are durable, because they are regular; and all his life is calm and serene, because it is innocent.

20. A good man will love himself too well to lose, and his neighbour too well to win, an estate by gaming. The love of gaming will corrupt the best principles in the world.

IV.

1. An angry man who suppresses his passions, thinks worse than he speaks; and an angry man that will chide, speaks worse than he thinks.

2. A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

3. It is to affectation the world owes its whole race of coxcombs. Nature, in her whole drama, never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of his own making.

4. It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance, and dazzled with every thing that sparkles; but great minds have but little admiration, because few things. appear new to them.

5. It happens to men of learning as to ears of corn; they shoot up, and raise their heads high, while they are empty; but when full and swelled with grain, they begin to flag and droop.

6. He that is truly polite, knows how to contradict with respect, and to please without adulation; and is equally remote from an insipid complaisance and a low familiarity.

7. The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds: and one fault of a deserving man will meet with more reproaches, than all his virtues praise: Such is the force of ill-will, and ill-nature.

8. It is harder to avoid censure, than to gain applause ; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age; but to escape censure, a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.

9. When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him, he answered: The earth cannot bear two suns, nor Asia two kings. Parmenio, a friend of Alexander's hearing the great offers that Darius had made, said, Were I Alexander, I would accept them. So would I, replied Alexander, where I Parmenio.

10. An old age unsupported with matter for discourse and meditation, is much to be dreaded. No state can be more

destitute than that of him, who when the delights of sense forsake him, has no pleasures of the mind.

11. Such is the conditions of life, that something is always wanted to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence; and great designs, which are defeated by experience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them. We are able to plan schemes and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.

12. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; Whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

13. The pleasure which affects the human mind with the most lively and transporting touches, is the sense that we act in the eye of Infinite wisdom, power and goodness, that will crown our virtuous endeavours here, with happiness hereafter, large as our desires, and lasting as our immortal souls; without this the highest state of life is insipid, and with it the lowest is a paradise.

V.

1. HONOURABLE age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor which is measured by number of years; but wisdom is the gray hair unto man, and an unspotted life is old age.

2. Wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous, and being pressed with conscience always forecasteth evil things; for fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth.

3. A rich man beginning to fall, is held up by his friends; but a poor man, being down, is thrust away by his friends. When a rich man is fallen, he hath many helpers; he speaketh things not to be spoken, and yet men justify him: the poor man slipt, and they rebuked him; he spoke wisely and could have no place. When a rich man speaketh every one holdeth his tongue, and lo! what he saith they extol to the clouds; but if a poor man speaks, they say, What fellow is this?

4. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. Well is he that is defend

ed from it, and hath passed through the venom thereof; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof, nor been bound in her bonds; for the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron, and the bands thereof are bands of brass; the death thereof is an evil death.

5. My son, blemish not thy good deeds, neither use uncomfortable words when thou givest any thing. Shall not the dew assuage the heat? So is a word better than a gift. Lo, is not a word better than a gift. But both are with a gracious man.

6. Blame not before thou hast examined the truth; understand first, and then rebuke.

7. If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him; for some men are friends for their own occasions, and will not abide in the day of trouble.

8. Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him: A new friend is as new wine; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

9. A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.

10. Admonish thy friend; it may be he hath not done it; and if he hath, that he should do it no more. Admonish thy friend; it may be he hath not said it; or if he hath, that he should speak it not again. Admonish a friend; for many times it is a slander; and believe not every tale. There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart; and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue ?

11. Whoso discovereth secrets, loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.

12. Honour thy father with thy whole heart, and forget not the sorrows of thy mother. How canst thou recompense them the things which they have done for thee?

13. There is nothing of so much worth as a mind well instructed.

14. The lips of talkers will be telling such things as pertain not unto them; but the words of such as have understanding are weghed in the balance. The heart of fools is in their mouth, but the tongue of the wise is in their heart. 15. To labour, and to be contented with what a man hath, Is a sweet life.

16. Be not confident, even in a plain way.

17. Be in peace with many; nevertheless have but one counsellor of a thousand.

18. Let reason go before every enterprise, and counsel before every action.

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1. THE latter part of a wise man's life is taken up curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

2. Censure, is tax, a man pays to the public for being

eminent.

3. Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

4. Party is the madness of many-for the gain of a few. 5. To endeavour to work upon the vuigar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor. 6. Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

7. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

8. Some people will never learn any thing; for this reason, because they understand every thing too soon.

9. Whilst an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by the worst performance; when he is dead, we rate them by his best.

10. Men are grateful, in the same degree that they are resentful,

11. Young men are subtle arguers; the cloke of honour covers all their faults, as that of passion all their follies.

12. Economy is no disgrace; it is better living on a little than outliving a great deal.

13. Next to the satisfaction I receive in the prosperity of an honest man, I am best pleased with the confusion of a rascal. 14. What is often termed shyness, is nothing more than refined sense, and an indifference to common observation.

15. To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armour, that one has nothing left to defend.

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16. Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy, as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

17. Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives to the persons who possess it, by the partiality it excites in their favour.

18. The difference there is betwixt honour and honesty