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Which labour'd after him to the mountain's top Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down, Not one accompanying his declining footidno 1486. FLATTERY.

He that loves to be flatter'd is worthy of the Flatterer.

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O, that men's ears should be To Counsel deaf, but not to Flattery.

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Ah, when the means are gone that buy our praise, The breath is gone whereof our praise is made. T : 1489. GIFTs are not a BARTER one

There's none can truly say 1610

He gives if he receives.

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1490. CEREMONYize

Ceremony was but devis'd at first,

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes ¦ Recanting goodness sorry ere 'tis shown :.0001 But where there is true Friendship there needs 1491. CORRUPTION generaleazio [none. Who lives that's not binod ebaza.

Depraved, or depraves ?

1492. FRIENDSHIP-rarely unmixt with enmity. Who dies that bears

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Not one spurn to their graves of their Friend's

1493. ADVERSITY. Men shut their doors against a setting Sun.

1494. LIBERALITY imprudent.

'Tis pity Bounty had not eyes behind.

1495. FRIENDS false.

Happier is he that has no Friends to feed,

Than such that do e'en Enemies exceed.

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Friendship's oft full of dregs.

1497. AGE Old.

Nature, as it grows again toward earth,

Is fashion'd for the journey; dull and heavy. I' 1498. PRAISE-marks of it's insincerity.

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1499. SYMPATHY,deb

§ Weigh thou thy friend's affections with thy own. 1500. FRIENDSHIP zealous and courageous. Friendship has not a faint and milky heart. 1501. INGRATITUDE. 302 ww

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O see the monstrousness of Man,.

When he looks out in an ungrateful shape.

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1502. PROFUSION leads to INDIGENCE..! Who cannot keep his wealth must keep his 1503. TO [house +. Many that keep their chambers are not sick. b11504.; gabby ble poldan 9.

A Prodigal's course

Is like the Sun's: but not, like his, recoverable!!

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Pity is the virtue of the Law;// And none but Tyrants use it cruellyodeda s M

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As you are great, be pitifully good at

1507. FORTITUDE.

He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer

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THUCYD.

"Keeping house" is one of the descriptions of Bankruptcy.

Stat. Jac. I.

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Athens.

The worst that man can breathe: and make his

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To revenge is no valour but to bear.

1509. RASH NESS easily censured by the phlegmatic. Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood? 1510. IMPATIENCE, though a human Frailty, my partakes of IMPIETY. N

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But who is Man that is not angry*%22 1511. MAN his mutability, 23

Men are summer birds.

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1512. WEALTH-it's temptations. 11.2011 Who would not wish to be from Wealth exempt †?

1513. GOLD.

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Gold will make black white; Wrong right; base noble; old young; coward

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Pluck stout men's pillows from below their
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Will knit and break religions; bless the accurst
Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves
And give them title, knee, and approbation,
With senators on the bench. JROT

1514. PROFESSIONS- —dishonesty in them.!
There is boundless theft 'l

In limited professions.

*“Angry" here is trisyll.

"What Man is he that sinneth not!"

KINGS.

+"Give me neither Poverty nor Riches: feed me with food convenient

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1515. VIRTUE may be maintained in the worst Time There is no time so miserable but a man may be true.

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What viler thing upon the earth than Friends' Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends? 1517. WAR should have PEACE for it's object. Use the Olive with thy Sword;

Make War breed Peace*; make Peace stint War:
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Prescribe to other as each-other's Leach+.
1518. MISERS-their Presents designed as BAITS.
Misers deal gifts,
Expecting in-return twenty for one.

1519. CONTENT in the worst circumstancès pré-
ferable to DISCONTENT in the best.
Willing Misery!

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Outvies uncertain Pomp is crown'd before:
The one is filling still, never complete;
The other at high wish: Best state, contentless,
the distracted and most wretched being:

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20. MESSENGER his appearance shew's the import of his MESSAGE.

Haste is in the eye ́ ́..

Of him that speaks things strange.'"

PAX QUÆRITUR BELLO" was CROMWELL's Motto. All pretend but how few Governments practise it, xx

"Leach." The old word for Physician.

1521. FRAUD indulges in small Matters to sms deccive in great.

"Tis strange

And oftentimes to win us to our harm,
The instruments of Darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.

1522. DUPLICITY.C

to Be they no more beliey'd y

That palter with us in a double sense;
Keeping the Word of Promise to our Ear
To break it to our Hope.

1523. IMAGINATION it's power tremendous. Present fears

Are less than horrible imaginings.

1524 TIME and OPPORTUNITY.

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Time and the hour* run through the roughest day. 1525 PHYSIOGNOMY-it's Indications exceed

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To find the Mind's construction in the Face.t 1526. PHYSIOGNOMY Some characteristics obvious: as of FEAR.

To alter favour† ever is to fear.

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1527. AFFECTION; interesting even in it's imporThe Love that follows us sometimes is our trouble; Which still we praise as Lovesokki

1528. AMBITION.

Vaulting Ambition oft o'erleaps itself.

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1529. WICKEDNESS the false face doth

False face will hide what

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