Night.] 2711. NATURE. Nature draws to her Bias. 2712. RETRIBUTION. To wrong-doers the Revolution of Time brings Retribution. 2713. DISHONESTY;-no Passport. 'Gainst Knaves & Thieves Men shut their Gates. 2714. PRETENCES not long successful. 'Tis hard by Swaggering long to thrive. 2715. § Ornament often proves too dangerous. 2716. OBSERVATION-Nicety of it; or FACT, § Many things are not noted But of the finer Natures. 2717. INTEGRITY must be fearless. § Cowardice Drives Honesty behind; restraining it 2718. NEGLIGENCE. § In Persons grafted in a serious Trust. Negligence is a Crime*. 2719. DIFFIDENCE. Distrust of the Event is such a Fear As oft infects the wisest. 2720. INFIRMITY. ¶ Infirmities there are from which our Nature Is never freet. 2721. GUILT. The Guilty Would wish all eyes blind but their own. *This was rightly urged on a late Public Enquiry. Vitiis nemo sine nascitur: optimus ille JUV. Night.] 2722. OPINION inveterate. The Choice is oft an early Cure or none Good Servants see the Honour of their Master With eyes as keen as their particular Profit. 12724. DANGER PREVENTION. "Tis wiser to prevent an urgent Danger · Than to lose time in questioning how it grew. -2725. KINGS should be attentive to sutisfy the PUBLIC..5 In Princes, howe'er satisfied, itis wise. To make that full Disclosure which shall give Rest to the Minds of others. 2726. INNOCENCE-to be defended at all Risques, Fear not from tyrannous Passion to defend An innocent Life. 2727. INTOLERANCE. Those are more Heretics who make the Fire Than they who burnqin it. 2728. ADULATION. * Indulgence to the Follies of the Great Will never do them good:-much less, to Crimes. 2729. TRIAL. 21. Who have been publicly accus'd should have A just and open Trial. 2730. CEREMONY-religious.. 3. The Ceremonies of Religion should Be solemn and unearthly †. * A Divine Aphorism: and especially those Times considered. + GOD is a Spirit: and those who worship him should worship in Spirit and in Truth. JOHN. 2731. CONSCIENCE a bad. O To Conscience self-accus'd, Calamity 2732. PASSION obstinate. Tale. The Violence of Passion will disbelieve any thing rather than it will believe it's own injustice. 2733. SUPERSTITION, The influence of Superstition is like that of Flattery: we are open to both when we imagine Ourselves most inaccessible to either. 2734. CHEARFULNESS Supports EXERTION. A merry Heart goes all the Day, A sad tires in a mile. A WINTER'S TALE. » 2735. FETES fashionable. X Many a Feast In every Mess has Folly; and the Feeders 2736. SECURITY-Confidence of it. Continued Health, Prosperity, and Greatness, Are little us'd to fear. 1 2737. GLOOM-unseasonable. § Darken not with forc'd thoughts the mirth of a Feast. 2738. LOVE-it's Partiality. § What the Belov'd does, in a Lover's eye Still betters what is done*. 2739. CREDULITY. Common Minds are apt to take every thing in print for true. * Omnis Amatori decuit Color, & Status, & Res. Tale.] 2740. GIFTS. 2. The Gifts for which Love looks are in the Heart. 2741. ADVICE. 3. Wait for the Season, when to cast good CounUpon subsiding Passion. 2742. BUSINESS-unceremonious. 4. Business near the Heart Will leave out Ceremony. 2743. PROSPERITY-LOVE. [cils + Where not the Heart and Mind, but Fancy Prosperity's the very Bond of Love; [sways, Whose fresh Complexion, and whose Heart toge Affliction alters. 2744. ATTENTION- PASSION. [ther, 5. A strong Interest felt in any thing absorbs the Senses. 2745, CELERITY. Where all is right, the swifter speed the better. 2746. KNAVERY. 6§. Those who have least Honesty are some- \ times honest; by Accident, as it were. 2747. AFFECTATION. 7. To vulgar Minds it appears noble to be fantastical. 2748, REPENTANCE AMENDMENT. 8. The greatest Faults Repentance and Amendment will redeem. 2749. LOVE-First. § A first Love has As little skill to fear as it has purpose. To give a cause for fear. 2750. ROGUE-confirm❜d. 2. A thorough Rogue is Proof against the Title of Rogue, and what shame belongs to it. 2751. EMOTION—it's Language, 3. In high Emotions Silence is Speech, and every Gesture is Language the most significant. 2752. PREFERMENT. 4. There are Heads on which Preferment would drop, were it not for the dash of their former Lives. MACRETH. 2753. WICKEDNESS-reverses natural Appear. § To the wicked fair is foul, and foul is fair. [ances. 2754. WEATHER-PROGNOSTICS. Whence the Sun gives his Reflection Ship-wrecking Storms and direful Thunders break. 2755. APPEARANCES. [come Oft from that Spring whence Comfort seems to Discomfort wells. seem'd And Comfort oft whence Only to flow Discomfort. 2756. HONORs-new. 5+. Unless the Mind itself be truly noble, New Honors, like strange Garments, sit not well But with the aid of Use. 2757. ATTENTION-HABIT of it endears. 6§. What we have-begun to plant, 'tis seen we To make it full of Growth. 2758. NOBILITY. [labour 1 That Signs of Nobleness like Stars may shine, Those who deserve, and they alone, must wear 2759. INTEGRITY. 7¶ What we will highly We should will holily. [them. |