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S good almost
to the earth

precious

man as kill a good

man lives a burden

but a good book

blood of a master

life

embalmed and
to a life

kill

Many

book.

the

treasured up on purpose,

beyond death.

Read not

is

spirit,

Milton.

to contradict

and confute,

nor to believe and take for granted, nor

to find talk

and discourage, but

to

weigh

Bacon.

and consider.

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the

alphabet by which you

may

Conceit

beauty
pairs

spell cha-

Lavater.

racters.

is

it is

what

it

to nature

what paint

is

to

not only needless, but im-

would improve.

Pope.

is

the true valiant

man

that dares

nothing but what he may, and fears

nothing but what he ought.

Quarks,

The

greatest friend of Truth

is

Time.

ColIon.

When

you doubt, abstain.

Zoroaster.

Those who place their affections at

on trifles for amusement, will find
those trifles become at last their most

first

Goldsmith.

serious concerns.

Most men are slaves because they cannot pronounce the monosyable " No !"
Chamfort.

Old

friends are best.

King James

used to ask for his old shoes,

were

easiest to his feet.

Love those who

who

praise, you.

they

Selden.

advise, but not those

Boileau.

ODERATIOft"

is

the silken string

running through the pearl-chain of

all virtues.

'Tis one thing to be tempted,

Another thing to fall. Shakespeare.

In taking revenge, a
with his enemy

he

is

is

but even
it

over

Bacon.

superior.

It is

age a

man

but in passing

no small commendation to man- I

well. He is a good waggoner I

little,

that can turn in a

We

little

room. Bp. Hall.

are always complaining that our

days are few, and acting as though there

ould be no end of them.

Vain-glorious

men

are the scorn ot

wise men, the admiration of

idols of parasites,

own

vaunts.

and the

fools,

the

slaves of their

Bacon.

JLENCE

does not always mark

wisdom.

S.

T. Coleridge.

Simplicity, of all things,

to

the hardest

is

be copied.
Sincerity

is

Steele.

like travelling in a plain,

beaten road, which commonly brings a

man

sooner to his journey's end than by-

ways, in which

men

often lose themTillotson.

selves.

When
speaking

from

evil-

listeners refrain

from

will talkers refrain

?

When

Hare.

evil-hearing.

The man

that dares traduce, because he

can

With

safety to himself,

is

not a man.

Cowper.

The temperate man,

like fish in clear

streams, untainted with disease, smoothly

glides through the soft current of

life.

Feltham.

HE tallest trees are most

in the

of the winds, and ambitious

power

men

of

Feun.

the blasts of fortune.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude,

But character

in life's

tempestuous

sea.

Goethe.

To be

angry,

is

to revenge the faults

of others upon ourselves.

Wise anger
there

when

like fire

is

Pope.

from the

great ado to -bring

is
it

does come,

it is

it

flint

out; and

out again im-

Henry.

mediately.

Better to be despised for too anxious

apprehensions, than ruined by too con-

Burke.

fident a security.

God
vince

never wrought miracles to conatheism,

works convince

because His ordinary

it.

Bacon.

'

hj

EASURE
all

He

week

the

Sundays,

what they do

men by

not

without regarding
after.

Fuller.

that studieth revenge keepeth his

own wounds

green.

The world

Bacon.

an excellent judge in

is

general, but a very

bad one in parti-

cular.

Greville.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by

any outward touch as the sunbeam.
Milton.

All truth

is

And what
needs

He
her,

is

precious, if not all divine

dilates the pow'rs

must

Cowper.

refine.

that finds truth, without loving

like a bat

which, though

eyes to discern that there

hath so

evil eyes, that

in the sun.

it

is

it

have

a sun, yet

cannot delight

Sir Philip Sidney.

EVER

speak

but

something to

ave
when
Whereupon

say

shouldst thou run, seeing thou hast

no

There
dence

no

is

may

evil

from which Provi-

is

that

true to

is

and

false to

South cy.

God

can never be

Lord Burleigh.

man.

It is difficult for a rich

ble,

not, for that reason, the

be deprecated.

less to

Btitler.

not deduce some good

yet the evil

He

Bishop

tidings ?

man

but impossible for a proud

wise.

to

be hum-

man

be

to

Skelton.

If thou expect death as a friend, pre-

pare to entertain

it

if

thou expect death

as an enemy, prepare to overcome

death has no advantage but

comes a

stranger.

when

Quarles

it

it

OME men, like pictures,

a corner than a

judgment

is

And we make

fitter for

Seneca.

men of good judgment

Associate with
for

are

full light.

found in conversation.

another man's judgment

ours by frequenting his company.

Fuller.

Nor

love thy

thou

life,

nor hate

how

Live well ;

long,

how

short, permit

to heaven.

To be
life,

Milton.

always intending to

but never set about

man

but whilst

liv'st

it

live

new

this is as if

should put off eating and drink-

ing and sleeping, front one day and night

to another,

till

he

is

starved and de-

stroyed.

The

Tillotson.

-wisest

man may be

wiser to-day

than he was yesterday, and to-morrow

than he

is

to-day.

Cotton.

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CRIPPLE

in the right

way may beat

a racer in the wrong one.

man

wise

he

tunities than

There

is

will

Bacon.

make more

finds.

nothing so

oppor-

Bacon.
difficult as

the art

of making advice agreeable. Spectator.

Every man ought to aim at eminence,

not by putting others down, but by
raising himself.

Ambition

Whose

is

Anon.

the dropsy of the soul,

thirst

we must

control.

not yield

to,

but

Sedley.

Ambition often puts men upon doing

the meanest offices

formed
ing.

in the

so climbing

is

per-

same posture with creepSwijt.

Beware equally of a sudden friend

and a slow enemy.
Home.

HOOSE

such pleasures as recreate

much, and

It is

own

cost

Fuller.

little.

a good divine that follows his

Shakespeare.

instructions.

Purity

is

the feminine, truth the mas-

Hare.

culine, of honour.

Reason cannot show

sonable,

than

to

itself

more

rea-

leave reasoning on

things above reason.

Sir Philip Sidney.

He who reforms himself, has done

more towards reforming the public, than
a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.
Lavater.
Religion

is

the basis of

and the source of

all

civil society,

good, and of

Wisdom
stoop than

all

Burke.

comfort.

is oft

times nearer

when we

soar.

when we

Wordsworth.

G>

man

not rising upwards to be an

depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.
a

is

angel,

S. T. Coleridge.

Sweet mercy

is

nobility's true badge.

Shakespeare.

He

that never fears

he that always

is

desperate, and

fears is a coward.

Quarles.

The
to live

surest
it

remedy against scandal

down.

is

Boerhaave.

is commonly firm, and

commonly successful.

Moderation
firmness

Dr. Johnson.
If you desire to be held wise, be so

wise as to hold thy tongue.

If

Quarles.

you can be well without health,

you may be happy without

virtue.

Sir P. Sidney.

BSENCE

mind

of occupation
quite

is

vacant,

He

hath riches
to

rest,

mind

Cowper.

distress'd.

enough

not
is

sufficient

who

hath

be charitable.
Sir T. Browne.

surfeit of the sweetest things

The

deepest loathing to the stomach

brings.

The

Shakespeare.

intermediate seasons of the

man

of pleasure are more heavy than one

would impose upon the

vilest criminal.
Steele.

ECREATION

is

not being

idle,

but

easing the weariest part by change

of business.

The world

Locke.

is

a great book, of which

they that stay at

page.

home
St.

read

only a

Augusthie.

Knowledge is proud that he has learnt

so much
Wisdom is humble that he knows no
more.

Cowper.

Little can

whole mind

be done well to which the

is

not applied.

Dr. Johnson.
Speak not but what may benefit others
or yourself; avoid trifling conversations.

Franklin.

Eat not

HHR-

tion.

to fulness, drink not to eleva-

Franklin.

ONE

but cowards

lie.

Murphy.

The good are better made by ill

As odours crush'd are sweeter still
:

Rogers.
It is not the suffering,

that

makes the martyr.

As

but the cause,

Henry.

threshing separates the corn from

the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Burton.
Adversity,

how blunt are all the arrows

of thy quiver in comparison with those

of guilt.

Blair.

Discretion of speech

quence.

There

is

more than

elo-

Bacon.

is

surely

no greater wisdom,

than well to time the beginnings and

outsets of things.

Bacon.

OME

there be that shadows kiss

Such have but a shadow's bliss.

Shakespeare.

Sloth makes
Industry

He
and

all

things difficult, but

Franklin.

all easy.

that riseth late

must

trot all day,

shall scarce overtake his business

Franklin.

at night.

He that sips of many arts drinks of none.

Fuller.

To be proud
ignorance.

The
The

of learning

is

the greatest

Bishop Taylor.

virtue of prosperity

virtue of adversity

is

is

temperance

fortitude.

Bacon.
Virtue

is

like a rich stone, best plain set.

Bacon.

A.GLES fly alone they are but sheep

who always herd together.
;

Sir P. Sidney.

Applause
the end

is

the spur of noble minds,

and aim of weak ones.

Anon.

Thou

oughtest to be nice even to su-

perstition in

keeping thy promises

and

therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making: them.

Fuller.

Men are born with two

one tongue,
twice as

much

A man
business

as they say.

who

is

Colton.

cannot mind his

own

not to be trusted with the

king's.

Savillc.

Commend a fool
for his honesty,

into their

eyes, but with

in order that they should see

for his wit, or a kr

and they

bosom.

will receive yoi

Fieldin.

4?

IT

brushwood, judgment timber:

is

the one gives the greatest flame, the

other yields the durablest heat

both meeting make the best

and

fire.

Sir Thomas Overbury.

Prize the

of

it,

that

word of God by the worth

may not come to prize it

you

by the want of it.

Dyer.

Man was meant

to be not the slave,

but the master of circumstances.

Kingsley.

good word

but not to speak

silence,

which

is

an easy obligation ;
requires only our

ill,

costs us nothing.
Tillotson.

To

begin

sin, is to

for a continuance.

When

lay a foundation

Bunyan.

thou pray est, rather

let

thy

heart be without words, than thy words

without heart.

Bunyan.

lives

long that lives well ; and time

misspent,

is

not lived, but

lost.

Fuller.

Leam to

hold thy tongue ;

five

words

cost Zacharias forty weeks' silence.

Fuller.

Dare do

Who

all that

may become

dares do more,

man

none.

is

Shakespeare.

Reading maketh a

man;

full

confer-

ence a ready man, and writing an exact

man.

Bacon.

Good breeding
where

to

shows

an ordinary eye

it

itself

most,

appears the

Addison.

least.

Where there is much pretension,

much has been borrowed nature never
;

pretends.

Lavater.

EN are

sometimes accused of pride,

merely because their accusers would
be proud

in their places.

Be wise to-day

Shenstone.

'tis madness to defer

Next day the fatal precedent will plead
Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of
;

life.

Young.

If thou art a master, be sometimes

blind

if

a servant, sometimes deaf.

Fuller.

Murmur
reparable,
less,

it is

at
it

nothing;

is

our

if

ungrateful;

vain.

if

ills

are

remedi-

Cotton.

In'

contemplation of created things

By

steps

we may ascend

to

God.

Milton.

The

seeds of repentance are

sown

youth by pleasure; but the harvest

reaped in age by pain.
Cotton.

in
is

ESOLVE to

perform what you ought

perform without

fail

what you

Franklin.

solve.

To

think

well

is

the

way

to

||

act

Paley.

rightly.

The

re

surest

way

not to

termine to succeed.

fail

is

to de-

Sheridan.

We make laws, but we follow customs.

Lady Montague.
There

is

no book upon which we can

A!
j

rest, in

a dying moment, but the Bible.

Selden.

There are no songs comparable to the

Sion, no orations equal to
those of the prophets, and no politics
like those which the Scriptures teach.
songs of

Milton.

Duties are ours, events are God's.

Cecil.

l-'Mfcl

-M'/

O man

can be provident of his time,

who
his

is

not prudent in the choice of

company.

Wealth

is

the contrary
live well,

will

not the
let all

Jeremy Taylor.

way

to heaven, but

your care be

how to

and you may be sure that you

never die poor.

Bishop Henshaw.

It is a little learning, and very little,

which makes men conclude hastily.

Jeremy Taylor.
Sin and punishment are like the
shadow and the body, never apart.
Bishop Henshaw.

He that smarts for speaking truth, hath

a plaster in his

He who
will often

is

own conscience.

always his

have a

own

Fuller.

counsellor

fool for his client.

Hunter.

it

UMILITY

that

From which

low sweet root

all

heavenly

shoot.

Hurry

is

the

virtues-

Moore.

mark of a weak mine

dispatch of a strong one.

Colton.

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks

Invisible except to

God

alone.

Milton.

Religion is in its essence the most gentlemanly thing in the world.

It will
alone gentilize if unmixed with cant

and

know

nothing else that will alone.

T. S. Coleridge.

Repentance

is

not one single action,

but a course.

South.

one thing to take

God and heayour portion, as believers do,

and another thing to be desirous of it as
It is

ven

for

a reserve when you can keep the world

no longer.

Baxter.

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