Not what is meet but what must be is law*. 171. MAGNANIMITY. Some natures are too noble for this world. Who truly knows a great man's worthiness, To his faults is not blind. 173. APOSTASY INEXCUSABLE. Let it suffice if while men love their Country, Their country honours them.-The service of the Being once gangren'd, is not then respected [foot For what it was before, 174. FITNESS. Let what is meet be said. 175. A STATE. What is the City but the People || ! 176. PALLIATIVES. That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous 177. RAGE LEARNS REPENTANCE. Tyger-footed rage, when it shall find The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late 178. SINCERITY. Never wish a man False to his nature. Rather let him play 179. ARROGANCE. An haughty overweening wears power out Ere it is well put on. This is true in Fact; but false in Right. Agreeably to Classic Antiquity. Thus Sir Wm, Jones, in his noble Ode- What constitutes a State?" 180. PROSPERITY. § Pride out of daily fortune hourly taints The happy man. 181. NECESSITY OF PRUDENCE. "Tis a defect of judgment To fail in the disposal of those chances 182. PARDON A ROYAL VIRTUE. When it is least expected. 183. COMPASSION. Of no relenting tenderness to be Requires nor child nor woman's face to see. 184. REPENTANCE FOLLOWS VIOLENCE. In deeds of violence, when rage is gone, Great minds are struck with unavailing sorrow. 185. HONOUR AND POLICY. Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends, 186. ACTION, Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than the ears. 187. HONOUR. Rather Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf, Than flatter him in a bower. 188. Must a base tongue give to a noble heart 189. ADVERSITY. Extremity is the trier of the spirits. 190. ADVERSITY. Common chances common men can bear. 191. When the sea is calm all boats alike 192. REGRET. A man is lov'd when he is lack'd. 193. GRIEF IN AGE. An old man's tears are salter than a youth's. 194. RESIGNATION. 'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes As 'tis to laugh at them. 195. OCCASION. Advantage ever cools In the absence of the needer. 196. MODERATION. + Having shewn our power, Let us seem humbler after it is done, 197. DISSENTION. Friends,-how fast sworn, Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart, On a dissention of a doit, break out 198. POPULAR ESTIMATION. Lie in the interpretation of the times. 199. Power Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair To extol what it hath done *. 200. PARDON. + When pardon comes for acts which merit praise, It is a bare petition of a State, To one whom it has punish'd. 201. INJURY. Injury is the jailor of Pity . 202. DEATH. He that hath a will to die by himself, fears it not from another. HENRY VIII. 203. DIFFICULTIES MAY BE OVERCOME. To climb steep hills. Requires slow pace at first. 204. NOVELTY. O Him in eye Still him in praise with vulgar eyes and hearts, While novelty holds force. 205. HONOUR IN HONESTY. In honour honesty. Affect 206. PRE-EMINENCE BY MERCY. Times there are, When men not propt by ancestry, nor allied Out of their self-drawn web give the world note, That is, exaltation, by exciting envy, often is the grave of power, and sinks fame in oblivion-Omnium judicio dignus imperio nisi impen asset. That is, the sense of injury is too apt to restrain pity. 207. PRODIGALITY RUINS ESTATES. * Many Have broke their backs by laying Manors on them 208. REASON AGAINST PASSION. Let your reason with your choler question 209. LEARNING MORE NOBLE THAN TITLE. A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood*. 210. ANGER. Anger is like a full hot horse, Who being allowed his way, self-mettle tires him. 211. FOLLY OF REVENGE. Heat not a furnace || for your foe so hot 212. REASON AND PASSION. Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion. 213. SELF-ESTEEM. Love yourself: and in that love, Not unconsider'd leave your honour. 214. PRECIPITANCE. We may out-run By violent swiftness that which we run at: 215. The fire that mounts the liquor till 't run o'er By seeming to augment it wastes it. This is applied sarcastically in the Drama: but it is true that Genius and Learning, when pre-eminent and suitably applied, have that internal Nobility which transcends Ancestry; more than Ancestry is above Wealth. The metaphorical turn of this Aphorism gives it a very Pythagorean cast. It seems at the same time to allude to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. D |