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Honor,

762. HONOR.

Clock to itself, knows the true minute when
Exception bids it speak: and at the time
The tongue obeys it's hand.

[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.'

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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
To prostitute a past cure malady
To empyrics and to dissever so

*The Epitaph of Tasso:---Torquati Tassi Ossa,

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Our reason from our feelings to esteem

A senseless help,

780. MAN judges by APPEARANCES GOD
alone sees the REALITY.

It is not so with HIM who all things knows
As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows.
781. GOD the CAUSE of all CAUSES.
It is presumption in us when

The help of Heaven we count the act of Man.
782. LIFE wherein it's Value consists.

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.

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791. PROVIDENCE produceth great Effects by
weak Instruments.

HE that of greatest works is finisher
Oft does them by the weakest minister.

792. EXPECTATION often contradicted on either
side by EVENTS.

+Oft Expectation fails; and most oft there
Where most it promises: and oft ït hits
Where Hope is coldest and Despair most reigns.
793. SERVICES not accepted.

Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward.
794. THE ACT dignifies THE STATION.
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer's deed.

795. STATION an Encumbrance if without

VIRTUE.

Where great Addition swells and Virtue none,
It is a dropsied honor.

796. QUALITIES not to be judged by NAMES.
Good alone

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,
And these breed Honor.

799. HONORS-none true but the inherent.
Honors best thrive

When rather from our Acts we them derive,
Than our foregoers.

800. HONOR-sepulchral oft' lavisht on the unworthy. HONOR!-the mere word's a slave;

Debauch'd on every tomb, on every grave:
A lying trophy; and as oft is dumb,

Where dust, and damn'd oblivion, is the tomb
Of honor'd bones indeed *.

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
Which Duty owes.

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,
Lest thou hasten thy trial.

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.

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