ends Well.] Honor, 762. HONOR. Clock to itself, knows the true minute when [benevolent. and 763. GREATNESS true is unassuming True Greatness ever has for it's companion True Courtesy, unfeign'd Benevolence: And bows it's eminent top to lowly station. 764. GOODNESS persuasive above all ELOQUENCE. The Eloquence of Goodness Scatters not words in the ear; but grafteth them To grow there and to bear. 765. SELF-COMMENDATION. We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deserving, when of ourselves we publish them. 766. SERVICE. Service is no heritage *. 767. CHILDREN. Bairns are blessings |. [abused. 768. PASSIONS--natural and blameless, if not Blame not our passions; blame but the abuse: If we are Nature's, these are our's. 769. LOVE. It is the shew and seal of Nature's Truth When Love's strong passion is imprest in Youth. 770. MARRIAGE. Marriage comes by destiny. This is, either was in the time of Shakespeare a Proverb, as is most probable, or has since become so. This ought always to be a Proverb. Wretched indeed is the condition of that Land, however splendid it's appearance, the majority of whose inhabitants suffer under that bitterest reflection---so feelingly expresst by Nathaniel Bloomfield-- 'The curse to wish their Children may be few.' ends Well.] 771. ADOPTION. "Tis often seen Adoption strives with Nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign seeds. 772. LOVE sanctioned differs from lawless. There's difference in that Love which hath a bond Whereof the World take note. 773. True Affection will Wish chastely and love dearly. 774. LOVE not to be requited with HATE. Let not Hate encounter Love. [Receiver, 775. GIFTS are as the Heart of the Giver and OA Gift keeps even measure with the Heart, And doth expand in worth and efficacy As 'tis receiv'd. 776. LOVE and other PASSIONS--self-deceptive. Full oft the Heart Will not confess it owns the malady That doth it's Life besiege. 777. IGNORANCE ostentatious. Conceited Ignorance with much of wonder It's nothing ever prologues. 778. PRAISE to name the truely deserving is to praise them. For the truely Great and Good Well may we spare detail of praises on them; To know them and to name them is enough *. 779. EMPYRICS. We must not So stain our judgment and corrupt our hope *The Epitaph of Tasso:---Torquati Tassi Ossa, ends Well.] Our reason from our feelings to esteem A senseless help, 780. MAN judges by APPEARANCES GOD It is not so with HIM who all things knows The help of Heaven we count the act of Man. All that Life can rate Worth name of Life in these hath estimate, Health, Beauty, Wisdom, Courage, Virtue. 783. LUXURY. Highly fed, lowly taught. 784. VIRTUE the sole, permanent, and perpetual Things may serve long but not ever. 785, EQUANIMITY. [GOOD, +'Tis ill to make trifles of terrors, or terrors of trifles. 786. YOUTH-Excellence in it. - In youthful years Wisdom and Constancy are doubly honor'd. 787. Heaven often helps when help past sense we 788. KNOWLEDGE pretended. [deem. We often ensconce ourselves in seeming knowledge, when we should submit to an unknown Cause. 789. JUSTICE is WISDOM. ¶ For thine own sake, never do others wrong. 790. NAMES change not NATURE. Do not dislike Of Virtue for a name. ends Well.] 791. PROVIDENCE produceth great Effects by HE that of greatest works is finisher 792. EXPECTATION often contradicted on either +Oft Expectation fails; and most oft there Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward. 795. STATION an Encumbrance if without VIRTUE. Where great Addition swells and Virtue none, 796. QUALITIES not to be judged by NAMES. Is Good, without a name;-Vileness is so. 797. The property by what it is, should go, Not by the title. 798. NATURAL PERFECTIONS-superior to derivative Estimation. To be wise and fair Derives from Nature as immediate heritage, 799. HONORS-none true but the inherent. When rather from our Acts we them derive, 800. HONOR-sepulchral oft' lavisht on the unworthy. HONOR!-the mere word's a slave; Debauch'd on every tomb, on every grave: Where dust, and damn'd oblivion, is the tomb 801. OBEDIENCE-where always due. * Obey that will which travels in thy Good: Therefore obey Heaven alway. 802. PRIDE AND OBSTINACY to be shunn'd. Believe not thy Disdain. 803. Do to thy Fortune that obedient Right 804. CoxCOME. The Soul of a Coxcomb is his Cloaths. 805. EXTRAVAGANCE. Many have sold a goodly Manor for a Song. 806. FRIENDSHIP. If Friends engross their Sorrows to themselves, They rob their Friends a moiety. 807. FORTITUDE, What Courage dares too well do, that Virtue dares not do without just occasion. 80S. ANGER. Do not plunge thyself too far in Anger, S09. GOD our sole MASTER. * HE whom we serve above is alone our Master || . 810. STRIFE domestic-the worst. War is no strife To the dark house and the detested Wife. *Nobilitas sola est atque unica Virtus. One is your Master. JUV. MATTH, xxiii. 9. |