Nothing is commendable that is not just. No ill befals us but may be for our good. 15. One ill example spoils many good laws. Obstinacy is the most incurable of all sins. Oil, and truth, will get uppermost at last. Of sinful pleasures repentance only remains. One fool in one house is quite enough.

Old birds, boy, are not to be caught with chaff. 16. Peace with heaven is the best friendship. Pride goes before, and shame follows after. Prayer and provender hinder no journey. Penny in pocket is a good companion. Poor folks' words answer but little purpose. Prudence saves us from many a misfortune. 17. Quick promisers are slow performers. Questions of moment require slow answers. Quick believers need broad shoulders. Quick to hear, slow to speak.

Quietness and peace make discord cease. Quack doctors support grave diggers. 18. Righteousness exalteth a nation.

Riches are often the servants of vice.
Rich men seem happy, great men wise.
Riches are but the baggage of virtue.
Rash anger is the author of many evils.
Rub your sore eyes with your elbows.
19. Security is the forerunner of calamity.
Saying and doing seldom dine together.
Show me a liar, and I will show you a thief.
Stay a while that we may come the sooner.
Sin and sorrow are never far from each other.
Speak the truth and shame the devil.

20. There are more ways to the wood than one.
Those who live sinfully die sorrowfully.
Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
The best throw at dice is to throw them away
Think much, speak little, and write less.
To err is human, to forgive, divine.

21. Use soft words and hard arguments.

Undertake great affairs with caution.
Use of a thing is the best master.

22. Vice is seldom learned without a teacher.
Value reputation more than gold.

Virtue is the best patrimony for a child. 23. While the cat sleeps the mice skip about. When the sky falls we shall catch larks. Wit once bought is worth twice taught. When the fox preaches let the geese beware., Wicked practices discover bad principles. Wit is folly, unless a wise man possess it. 24. You have hit the nail on the head.

You can have no more of a cat than her skin.
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
Youth, like the spring, will soon be gone.
Young men's knocks old men feel.

Yes, good words to put off your bad ware. 25. Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Chuse what is most fit; custom will make it most agreeable. Improve by other men's faults, rather than censure them.

26. As the old cock crows the young one learns. Example is stronger than precept.-Such is the father, such is the son. Children learn by imitation. Men acquire virtue or vice more from education than from nature. It is hard to teach

an old dog new tricks.

27. The young are slaves to novelty, the old to custom. Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools. Superstition is the spleen of the soul. A saddle for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

28. Those who set out to live by their wits, often break for want of stock. Diligence will overcome difficulties. Continual dropping will wear a stone. Little strokes fell great oaks.

29. A rolling stone will gather no moss.
I never knew an oft removed tree,
Nor yet an oft removed family,

That throve so well as those that settled bè. 30. Three removes are as bad as a fire.

31. Seize time by the foretop. Time and tide wait for no man. Never put that off while tomorrow, which you can do to-day. A stitch in time saves nine. Lost time is never found again. What we call time enough, always proves little enough. Make hay while the sun shines.

32. If you love life do not waste your time, for time is the stuff life is made of. He that rises late may trot all day, and shall not be able to overtake his business at night. Drive thy work,

let not that drive thee.

33. Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, and wealthy and wise. Diligence is the mother of good luck. God will help them that help themselves. Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and keep.

34. If you would have a good servant, serve yourself. Handle your tools without mittins. cat in gloves catches no mice.

Many estates are spent in the getting;

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Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting;

And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.

35. If you would be rich, think of saving, as well as earning. A penny saved is as good as a penny earned. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes were more than her in

comes.

Luxury, game and deceit,

Make the wealth small and the wants great.

36. What maintains one vice, will bring up two children. Beware of small expences. Many a little makes a mickle. A small leak will sink a great ship, Fools make feasts, and great men eat them. Feast in the parlour, put out the kitchen fire.

37. He that goes borrowing, goes sorrowing. A farmer on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. Always taking out of the mealtub, and never putting in, will soon come to the bottom. When money is gone we know the want of it.

For age and want save while you may,

No morning sun will last a whole day. 38. PRIDE must fall. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Cut your coat according to your cloth. Great minds and small means ruin

many.

Vessels large may venture more,

But little boats should keep near shore.

39. Rather than run in debt, wear your old coat.

A patch on a man's back is not so disgraceful as a writ. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. We can give advice, but we cannot give conduct. If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckels.

40. SILENCE is every where safe. Be more ready to hear than to speak. You have two ears and but one tongue, therefore you should hear twice and speak once. The prating fool shall fall. If you cannot keep your own secrets, you must not blame others for telling them.

A man of words and not of deeds,
Is like a garden full of weeds.

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41. The tongue is like a race horse: it runs faster the less weight it carries. The shallow brook warbles, while the deep water is still. empty cask makes a great noise. Hold your tongue, and nobody will know that you are a fool. To say little and perform much is the characteristic of a great mind. When you have nothing to mind.—When say, say nothing.

42. FRIENDS in need are friends indeed. Prosperity will gain friends, adversity will try them. True friends are rare, change not an old friend for a new one. If you would have friends, be friendly. One good turn deserves another. Anger resteth in the bosom of a fool. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

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Chapter XLVII. Forty-seventh.

AGAINST QUARRELING.

1. Good children do not quarrel, and hurt one another when they are at play. Naughty boys quarrel; and cats and dogs, and wolves, and bears quarrel; but good boys live in peace: they are friendly to one another, and every body loves them.

2. Did you see the cocks fight? They fought till they were all bloody, and almost blind. How foolish were they to fight and hurt each other so! They got no good by fighting; but they got sadly hurt. So boys get no good by quarrelling, but

much hurt.

3. Do you see the dogs fight? Foolish dogs how the bite one another; they are all bloody, as the fighting cocks were. See! one of them has got his ear almost bit off. I am sure they get no good by fighting; they had much better live in peace like good dogs, and be friendly to each other.