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716. AGE.

Age says, when candidly it looks on Youth, By the remembrance of our days foregone, Such were our faults-O then we thought them 717. should remember itself. [none ! An aged eye may have too much of Youth in't. 718. JOY or SORROW in extreme have like SYMPTOMS,

Emotions may be so strong that the wisest beholder can not say if their import be Joy or Sorrow but that the extremity of one it must needs be.

719.

Extreme Joy hides itself in Tears,

720. EVIDENCE.

One of the greatest pledges of Truth is an unity of result from independent proofs.

721. CHARACTER wholly lost discredits the best Actions.

Some are so lost to estimation, that a real and important merit does not relish among their discredits.

722. GENTLEMEN,

Those should be gentle who are Gentlemen

723. GREATNESS-false.

False Greatness is affected and fantastical.
724.

He is but a counterfeit Gentleman who will

swear or say falsely for his Friend.

725. SYMPATHY.

Such is the magic power of Sympathy,
And such the virtue of repentant tears,

* The value of the Sentiment is an apology for the Pun.

Though not in all afflictions still in most,

That who caus'd Grief to others hath the power
To take off so much grief from them as he
Will piece up in himself.

726. LIFE-the Love of it.

+ Comfort and Hopes are seldom so much worn out as to extinguish the love of Life: they who went on crutches ere a Child is born, still desire to live to see him a Man.

727. YOUTH.

Youth thinks there is no more behind
But such a day to-morrow as to-day.
728. CHILDHOOD-it's Innocence.

Uncorrupted Childhood knows not
The doctrine of ill-doing:-no; nor dreams
That
any do.

729. WOMAN-invincible but to KINDNESS.
No force subdues a Woman's mind but kind-
730. PRAISE-just is MUSIC.

It is Music

[ness.

To hear good Deeds.

-731. CONSTANCY.

Affliction may

subdue the Cheek,

But not take in the Mind.

732. HAPPINESS progressive.

One Joy crowns another.

733. AFFLICTION-palatable to the WISE. Some Afflictions have a taste as sweet

As any cordial Comfort.

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There are who, like true Turtles,

A Mate that's never to be found again
Lament, 'till lost themselves.

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735. WIDOW.

There are few better proofs of a Widow's affection to her Husband, than that she bears to her Son by him.

736. REGRET OF THE PAST. That, had, how sad a passage it is.

737. GRIEF.

Great external indications of Grief argue

rather an affected than a real sorrow.

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS IVELL. 738.

We persecute Time with Hope.

739. QUALITIES good and plausible render more dangerous a bad HEART.

Where an unclean Mind carries virtuous* qualities, there commendations go with pity; they are virtues and traitors too.

740. SIMPLICITY.

Simplicity recommends every other Excellence. 741. MODESTY-Virgin.

Tears are the best brine a Maiden can season her praise in.

742. GRIEF saddens the coUNTENANCE. The tyranny of Sorrows takes all livelihood from the cheek.

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Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessive grief the enemy to the living.

* Virtuous here in the antient sense: pleasing and excellent in themselves, though abused. Such a plausible character is like what has been observed by Lord Bacon of the Philosophy of Moses concerning the Leprosy.

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744. SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.

Love all; trust but a few; do wrong to none.

745.

Be able for thy Enemy

Rather in power, than use; and keep thy Friend Under thy own life's key.

746.

Be checkt for Silence;

But never taxt for speech.

747. AFFECTION AND DUTY filial.

A Child is interested in Affection, Honor, and Principle, to maintain in their words and actions the just credit of the Parent.

748. FRIENDSHIP.

+ Idolatrous Fancy

Sanctifies the relics of a departed Friend.

749. FOLLY in this World often has the upperhand of WISDOM.

Full oft we see

Cold Wisdom waiting on superfluous Folly. 750. CELIBACY.

To speak on the part of Celibacy is to accuse our Parents.

751. AFFECTATION OF HUMILITY.

+ Deceit or Affectation oft present Humble Ambition, proud Humility.

752. BENEVOLENCE would alway be ACTIVE. That wishing well had not a body in't

Which might be felt: that those, the poorer born, Whose baser stars do shut them up in wishes, Might with effects of them follow their friends, And shew what they alone must think.

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753. EXERTION-if just, should be made with Confidence.

Our Remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

754.

The fated Sky

Gives us free scope; only doth backward pull
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull*.
755. ESTEEM certainly to be acquired by right
§ Who ever strove [Means.
In vain to win by Merit good Men's Love?
756. EQUALITY natural.

The mightiest space in fortune Nature brings
To join like likes and kiss like native things.

757. DISTRUST-creates IMPOSSIBILITIES.
Impossible be strange attempts, to those
That weigh their pains in sense; and do suppose
What hath been cannot be.

758. VIRTUE preferable to SUCCESS. Howe'er our prospects may deceive us, Be fixt our good intents; and never leave us. 759. CONFIDENCE-it's Grounds.

Love, Truth, and Wisdom, well approv'd, may For amplest credence.

[plead 760. RESEMBLANCE external-indicates corresponding MIND.

O Who bears a virtuous Parent's face
Bears signature of Promise to inherit
Their moral Parts.

761. GENTLEMAN.

In a true Gentleman contempt or bitterness
There is not-pride or sharpness.

* Nullum numen abest si sit Prudentia.

JUV.

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