2227. THE WORLD-MANNERS.

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The Fashion of the World is to avoid trouble, 2228. PAINits Abuse-PLEASURE. Trouble being gone Comfort remains.

2229. SWEARING."

Swearers are apt to be forsworn.

2230. STEADINESS-to be practis'd; not boasted, Change never comes with a worse Grace, nor is ever more likely, than in those who have boasted themselves unchangeable. The Alteration of such becomes a notable Argument for Ridicule.

2231. CONFIDENCE.

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2. None are more confident than those who are on the point of Failing.

2232. AFFECTION.

3. Affection will learn any hard Lesson that may benefit its object..

2233. LOVE LEISURE,

Love is the Child of Leisure.

2234,

talks incessantly of its Object.

4. A Lover is never tir'd of talking of the Ob ject of Affection,

2235. PHYSIOGNOMY.

Love's grief is known by his complection*."

2236. PREAMBLE-prolix.

What need the Bridge much broader than the flood.

2237. RECONCILIATION.

5. Amity newly reconcil'd requires time and prudence to settle.

See the Story of Erasistratus, the Physician, in Ply, tarch's Life of Antiochus.

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2238. PRUDENCE.

6. Prudence frames the Season for its Harvest. 2239. SINCERITY.

7. It were better to be disdain'd of all, than to steal Confidence and Affection by Deceit from any.

2240. MALIGNITY.

8. Malignity seizes in the happiest Events something for a Model on which to build Mischief.

2241. DISCONTENT.

§ He is a Fool who betrothes himself to unquietness.

2242. PROPORTION.

There is measure in every thing*.

2243. LOVE-modest.

Love speaks low.

2244. VIRTUE and THE GRACES.

Virtue and the Graces, however little

dispos'd to shew themselves, will appear.

2245. CONVERSATION.

2. It is a bad sign when Conversation is recommended not by its Wit but its baseness. 2246. IMITATION.

§ We should follow our Leaders in every good thing; and leave them when they lead to ill. 2247. BEAUTY,

Beauty is a Witch.

2248. INADVERTENCE.

Life has it's Accidents of hourly Proof,
Which we mistrust not.

2249. ANGER-blind.

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Anger strikes like the blind Man, and revenges on one the pain it feels from another, 2250. MISERY creeps to SOLITUDE. The hurt Fowl creeps into ridges. 2251. PASSION-self-deceiving.

2. Love, or Resentment, puts the World into it's own person, and supposes all to think like itself of it's object.

2252. BEAUTY-TEMPER.

Beauty, with bad temper, is the infernal Ate in good Apparel.

2253. LOVE when it springs out of Prejudice. 2. When Love springs suddenly out of sup pos'd dislike, it hides itself under the Masque of encreas'd Antipathy,

2254. HAPPINESS-when greatest has fewest

WORDS.

Those are but little happy who are able to say how much.

2255.

3. Perpetual Laughter is all Mirth and no Matter.

2256, LOVE-impatient.

Time goes on crutches till Love obtain his wish. 2257. LOVE metamorphoses.

4. Love is a great Transformer.

2258. CHANGE-CONSTANCY.

5. Appetite will alter; Reason only is constant. 9259. RIDICULE--DEFAMATION-LIBEL. + Shall Quips and Sentences, and Paper-bullets

Quad quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.

HOR.

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of the brain, awe a Man out of his career; or even discompose him in it *?

2260. FAVORITES.

§ Favorites,

Made proud by Princes, will advance their pride Against the Power that bred it. Even as Honeysuckles,

That ripen'd by the Sun to full luxuriance,
Forbid the Sun to enter.

2261. LOVE can hardly consist with high SELF

CONCEIT.

They whose Wit

Values itself so highly, that to that

All Matter else seems weak, can hardly love,
Or take a shape or feeling of Affection,
Being so self-endear'd.

2262. RIDICULE and DETRACTION.

2+ The sport of Ridicule, and of Detraction, Turns every Virtue to it's bordering fault, And never gives to Truth and Merit that [chase. Which Simpleness and true Desert should pur2263.

§ Carping is any thing but commendable.

2264. FAME.

3. True Excellence earns Fame before it has it t. 2265. SCORN-dishonourable.

4. No Glory lives behind the back of Scorn. 2266. EDUCATION-never to tantalize.

Do not shew a Child his new Coat, and forbid him to wear it.

* Convicia spreta exolescunt: si irascaris agnita videntur, TACIT.

Honor Præmium Virtutis,

2267. OPENNESS,

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Where the Tongue speaketh as the Heart thinketh, there is Wisdom and Excellence; or great Weakness, or Impudence.

2268. PATIENCE easily recommended. Every one can master a Grief but he that has it. 2269. CONTAGION-moral.

They that touch Pitch will be defil'd.

2270. CORRUPTION.

§ When rich Villains have need of poor ones, the Market of Corruption runs high.

2271. INUENDOS malicious.

Let not bad thinking wrest true speaking. 2272. WIT-OSTENTATION of it.

2. One should not wear one's Wit in one's cap. 2273. EXCELLENCE-the GIFT of GOD. All Excellencies are Gifts that God gives. 2274. GRIEF-renders the Mind passive.

In extreme Grief the Mind is so enfeebled, That any where the smallest twine may lead us. 2275. REMEDIES -desperate.

2. To a strange Ill strangely men strain the Cure. 2276. DEATH.

We die to live *.

.2277. PATIENCE.

Have Patience, and endure t.

2278. GRIEF-immoderate.

It is not wisdom when we second Grief Against ourselves.

2279.

in vain to reason with it at first. § Grief will not be patcht with Proverbs.