631. FAME DUE TO VIRTUE. When Virtue serves the Public Weal, 'tis wrong A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of Time, 632. POLITENESS-NONE TRUE WITHOUT Then only shews of kindness have their worth, When outward courtesies truly declare The Heart that keeps within. 633. TRUTH IMMUTABLE. Truth is Truth to the end of reckoning. 634. DIFFICULTIES OFTEN EXAGGERATED. Make not impossible That which but seems unlike. 635. HYPOCRISY. 'Tis not impossible But one the wickedest caitiff on the ground Might seem shy, grave, and just and absolute. 636. DERANGEMENT. * Madness will have a striking frame of sense; And true Dependency of thing on thing. +Save one particular Point. 637. REASON not to be abandoned on account of apparent Incongruities. Do not banish Reason For inequality: but let Reason serve To make the truth appear, where it seems hid. 638. TIME. Time will unfold the evils now wrapt up. 639. TRUTH IS WISDOM AND VIRTUE. 640. FEAR EXCESSIVE-the worst of Torments. That Life is better life, past fearing Death, Than that which lives to fear. 641. RECIPROCITY. Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure. 642. SAYING POPULAR. They say Best men are moulded out of faults, and oft 643. THOUGHTS WITHOUT OVERT ACT. Thoughts answer to the will of Heaven; not Earth: Intents but merely thoughts; unless some Act Tend to fulfil their purpose. THE WINTER'S TALE. 644. NEGLECT. One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. 645. HONOR the temporary Recompence of VIRTUE. Our Praises are our Wages*. 646. KINDNESS-IT'S EFFICACY. You may ride a generous Horse With one soft word a thousand furlongs, ere With spur he heat an Acre. 647. FRIENDSHIP-what is called so may mean otherwise. To mingle Friendship far is mingling bloods |. 648. AFFECTION. Affection doth make possible Things not so held. The cheap Defence of Nations. BURKE. 649. AFFECTIONS not felt are disbelieved or despised. How sometimes Nature will betray it's folly, 650.. WOMEN. As potent as a Lord's. A Lady's verily is 651. FRAILTY HUMAN. O+ Where is that Man Who ne'er is negligent; foolish, and fearful; 652. TEMPORIZING. A Temporizer can, With the same eye, at once, see Good and Evil, Inclining to them both. 653. LEARNING- NOBILITY. Learning no less adorns Gentility Than Parents noble Names in whose succession Gentility is held. 654. HONOR-ingenuous. Honor will be frank, When it is charg'd in Honor, and by those 655. PHYSIOGNOMY. To true discernment The Heart is seen in the Face. Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments shews, agreeably to Thueydides, that sentiments, when above the tone of others, reach not their sympathy, H 656. CALUMNY. Virtue itself. Calumny will scar 657. GRIEF SILENT. There is a Grief which burns Worse than tears drown. 658. SUFFERING-when to be lamented. In reason it befits us to lament Suffering for Guilt: not suffering undeserv'd*. 659. JUSTICE NOT RASH. Be certain what you do: lest that your Justice Prove Violence. 660. TRUTH. Truth comes with words medicinal as true. 661. BIRDS OF PREY AND WILD BEASTS Some powerful Spirit instructs the Kites and To cherish the forsaken-Wolves and Bears, 662. ART-SUSPECTED. Art is suspicious: oft so much is us'd The sting of Slander Is sharper than the Sword. 664. PASSION. The mind by Passion driven from it's firm hold Becomes a feather to each wind that blows. Here Shakespeare probably had his justly favorite Plutarch in his Mind: in his Phocion, and again in his Ægis: 665. OATHS. Oaths without circumstance of strong support Should little weigh against that worth and credit That's seal'd in approbation. 666. APPEARANCES-DECEITFUL. The Hood makes not the Monk: a Man may be honest in nothing but his cloaths. 667. SILENCE ELOQUENT. The Silence often of pure Innocence Persuades, when speaking fails. 668. PROVIDENCE our great and ultimate Consolation. If Powers divine Behold our human actions (as they do) False Accusation blush, and Tyranny 669. IMPUDENCE OF VICE. It has been rarely heard That any of the bolder Vices wanted 670. Is past all Shame. Past all Truth 671. CONVICTION should be on plain PROOF. - To be condemn'd Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else, 672. FORGET AND FORGIVE, Censure should punish, or the Heart itself |