Ends Well.] 2611. SERVICE, PUBLIC-often defrauded of its Praise. The Merit of Service is often not attributed to the true and exact Performer. 2612. DESIRE stops at nothing. 3. To please the Will, when once it is enflam'd By a licentious Fire, nothing seems dear, Howe'er repented after. 2613. KNOWLEDGE-pretended. In those who mean not to inform, or to be informed, but to make Parade, to seem to know is often knowing enough for their purpose. 2614. DESPAIR-never to be indulged. All may end well yet, Though Time seem most adverse, and means unfit. 2615. METAPHORS. 2. Metaphors should be clean and inoffensive. 2616, YOUTH-passionate. In the flower of Youth, A The oil and fire, too strong for Reason's force, O'erheads it and burns on. 2617, FEAR and SUSPICION. 3. Credulity and Carelessness, and rash Confidence, having feared too little, when by a reasonable apprehension Ill might have been prevented, are apt to fear too much, when Fear serves only for needless Anxiety; and to become tormentingly and unavailingly suspicious for want of having been timely prudent. 2618. LOVE-nurst by SOLITUDE and INDUL GENCE. § Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied in bowers. Night.] TWELFTH NIGHT. 2619. COURAGE and HOPE. Courage and Hope are provident in Peril, 2620. RUMOR. The less will prattle of what Great ones do. 2621. PHYSIOGNOMY. 'Tis lovely to observe, when the Mind suits Well with the fair external Character. 2622. ORDER. [Order. Confine yourself within the modest limits of 2623. THOUGHT. Thought is free. 2624. GOOD EATING. To be a great Eater of Beef harms the Wit *. 2625. MARRIAGE. 2. It is dangerous for a Man to match above his degree in Estate, Years, or Wit. 2626. EXERTION. Is it a World to hide Virtues in ? † 2627. MARRIAGE any thing better than an unhappy. § It's a good hanging that prevents a bad Marriage. 2628. WIT. Those who think that they have Wit, very often prove Fools. 2629. CONDUCT-INEQUALITY of. + Virtue that transgresses is patcht with Sin? * It requires some Resolution to publish this Aphorism in England; especially for a man who loves Beef. Paulum sepultæ distat, Inertiâ HOR, Night-] And Sin that amends, till the Amendment become habitual, is but patcht with Virtue. 2630, BEAUTY. Beauty's a Flower. 2631. CALAMITY. Calamity tempts to Infidelity. 2632. HABIT-external. Cucullus non facit Monachum*. 2633. CONSOLATION. 2. If we believe that our Friends are in Heaven, we should not mourn to excess t. 3. Those who are sick of Self-love taste every thing with a distemper'd Appetite. 2635. SLANDER. Those who are generous, guiltless, and of a free Disposition, take those things for bird-bolts that others deem cannon-shot. 2636. DRUNKENNESS. § A drunken Man is like a Fool, a Madman, and a drowned Man; one draught too much makes him a fool, the second mads, and the third drowns him. 2637. OBLIGATION-DUTIES of indefinite. + What is our's to bestow, is not our's to reserve, without just cause. 2. What is our's to bestow, is so far our's to reserve, that an individual can not claim it as a Debt. * The hood doth not make the Monk. + Sorrowing not as those without hope. PAUL. Night.] Love may be as quickly caught as the Plague: but Love so caught is not very often mortal. 2639. EYE. 2. A partial Eye is a great Flatterer. 2640. NECESSITY. What is decreed must be. 2641. SELF. Ourselves we do not owe*. 2642. FRIENDSHIP. 3. Friendship wishes, as far as may be, to bear it's Evils alone, and divide it's Comforts. 2643. SECRET. O Modesty will not extort a Secret which another has a Right and a Wish to reserve. 2644. MODESTY. 2. Modesty wins Confidence. 2645. CONSISTENCY. 3. Do not undo what you have done: do not kill whom you have recover'd. 2646. WOMAN. How easy is it for the proper false In Women's waxen Hearts to set their forms! 2647. DISGUISE. + Disguise is Folly, Fear, or Wickedness; Scarce ever aught of Good. 2648 MAN. Such as we are made, e'en such we be +. *To owe here is to be the Owner, to have the absolute Dominion over, and Disposal. We are made by Circumstances: And our Wisdom is to avoid such Circumstances as tend to make us bad; and to make the most of those by which we have a rational Prospect of being made good. 2649. FAME. Night.] Time unties knots, too hard else to untie. Diluculò surgere saluberrimum*: 2651. SOTTISHNESS. Sots are not for Good Life. 2652. LOVERS. Journeys end in Lover's Meeting. 2653. DELAY. In Delay there lies no Plenty. 2654. YOUTH. Youth's a stuff will not endure. 2655. FUTURE. What's to come is still unsure. 2656. CATCHING. Some Dogs will catch well. 2657. FOLLY. 2. Folly has no respect of Time, Place, or Persons. 2658. ALLIANCE. 3. However allied to others, we should so act as to be held nothing allied to their Disorders. 2659. VANITY. 4. Those who believe that every one who looks on them loves them, are perpetually open to Ridicule and Disappointment. 2660. MEN. However Men are apt to praise themselves, More wandering, wavering, sooner lost and won, "To rise early is most wholesome." SHAKESPEARE had this from the Latin Accidence. And he has given it to an appropriate Character. And to catch is often less than a doggish Merit. |