631. FAME DUE TO VIRTUE.

When Virtue serves the Public Weal, 'tis wrong
To lock Desert in the ward of covert bosom,
When it deserves with characters of brass

A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of Time,
And razure of Oblivion.

632. POLITENESS-NONE TRUE WITHOUT
SINCERITY.

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.
Sense lives in Truth, and Truth in 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
Become much better for being a little bad.

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.
Intrat Amicitiæ nomine tectus Amor. ΟΥ.

649. AFFECTIONS not felt are disbelieved or

despised.

How sometimes Nature will betray it's folly,
It's tenderness; and make itself a pastime
To harder bosoms *!

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;
In every one of these no man is free,
But that his negligence, his folly, fear,
Among the infinite doings of the world,
Sometime puts forth.

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
Whom it thinks honorable.

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,

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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
less cruel than Man depraved.

Some powerful Spirit instructs the Kites and
Ravens

To cherish the forsaken-Wolves and Bears,
Casting their savageness aside, have done
The Offices of Pity.

662. ART-SUSPECTED.

Art is suspicious: oft so much is us'd
To make a staïn no stain, or that which is
Indeed no stain a stain, as passes colouring.
663. SLANDER.

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)
Then Innocence shall make

False Accusation blush, and Tyranny
Tremble at Patience.

669. IMPUDENCE OF VICE.

It has been rarely heard

That any of the bolder Vices wanted
Less Impudence to gainsay what they did
Than to perform it first.

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,
Is Tyranny, not Law.

672. FORGET AND FORGIVE,
O That officiousness

Censure should punish, or the Heart itself
Will punish, which reminds the sufferer
Of what should be forgotten..