For this being smelt, with that part cheers each part; Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. Two such opposed foes encamp them still In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will; Full soon the canker death eats up that plant. 238 Real happiness, where chiefly found. They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing: It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Thoughts tending to Ambition, they do plot * * * 9-i. 2. * Thoughts tending to Content, flatter themselves,— 17-v. 5. How mightily, sometimes, we make us comforts of our losses! And how mightily, some other times, we drown our gain in tears! 241 Timidity, incapable of adventure. Impossible be strange attempts, to those 11-iv. 3. That weigh their pains in sense; and do suppose, 242 11-i. 1. The love of life. O our lives' sweetness! 34-v. 3. That with the pain of death we'd hourly die, * Sooner comes, sooner acquires, becomes old. † Exod. xxiii. 2. New attempts seem impossible to those who estimate their labour or enterprises by sense, and believe that nothing can be but what they see before them. 'Tis good for men to love their present pains, And, when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt, 20-iv. 1. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 245 Fortitude in trials. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, 11—i. 1. But cheerly seek how to redress their harms, And give more strength to that which hath too much; 246 Grief unavailing. 23-v. 4. When remedies are past, the griefs are ended, [thief; The robb'd, that smiles, steals something from the He robs himself, that spends a bootless grief. Men at some time are masters of their fates; 37-i. 3. The fault is not in our stars, But in ourselves. * Lightness, nimbleness. 29-i. 2. 248 Delays dangerous. That we would do, We should do when we would; for this would changes, As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; 36-iv. 7. How poor are they, that have not patience !— 250 Evils, wrongly ascribed to Heaven. 37-ii. 3. This is the excellent foppery of the world! that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeit of our own behaviour), we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers,* by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.f 34-i. 2. How oft, when men are at the point of death, 252 The influence of infection. 35-v. 3. They that have power to hurt and will do none, * Traitors. † James i. 13, 14. Attendants. For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Against ill chances, men are ever merry; Our own precedent passions do instruct us 255 Poems. 19-iv. 2. 27-i. 1. Distrust. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, 256 Decaying nature of Love. There lives within the very flame of love Dies in his own too-much. 257 Time produces ingratitude. Time hath a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes; 5-i. 5. 36-iv. 7. Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: Perseverance Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. 258 The present opportunity to be taken. 26-iii. 3 Take the instant way; For honour travels in a straight so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, *Careless gayety is the forerunner of calamity; vigilance, of suc. cess and permanent welfare. Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, 259 Farewell and Welcome. Time is like a fashionable host, 26-iii. 3. That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand; 260 The praise of Virtue consists in action. O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was! For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, To envious and calumniating time. 261 Prevalence of appearances. 26-iii. 3. 26-iii. 3. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,- All solemn things Should answer solemn accidents. Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys, 263 Prosperity and Adversity. Prosperity is the very bond of love; 26-iii. 3. 31-iv. 2. Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. One of these is true: I think affliction may subdue the cheek, 13-iv. 3. New-fashioned toys. † Gold. Trifles. |