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2760. ENERGY prescient.

It is a godlike Energy which feels

The Future in the Instant.

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2761. VICE-PHYSIOG NOMY.

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2b. Vice, when most bold, but seems to look up 2762. VICE prepares Retribution against itself. + Treachery, Rapine, Cruelty, but teach Bloody Inventions, which being taught return To plague the Inventors.-Even-handed Justice Commends the Ingredients of our poison'd Chalice To our own Lips.

2763.

2. Guilt still feeds

It's Judgement even here.

2764. MAN-his true Character.

3. Who dares do all that may become a Man, And dares no more, he is a Man indeed. 2765. GUILT-it's Language perfect. Enormous Guilt, when new, is dark, confus'd, And forc'd in it's Expressions*.

2766. HONOR true-takes no criminal Advantages. Take heed to lose no Honor

In seeking to augment it: but still keep Thy bosom-franchise and Allegiance clear. 2767. GUILT-it's Terrors.

Guilt self-dismay'd sees Spectres every where. 2768. WORDS-ACTIONS.

Words to the heat of Deeds too cold Breath give.

* "Our Will became the Servant of Defect," &c. Another thing is remarkable: that already imagining himself what he had resolved to be at the Price of any Sacrifice, he uses the plural Pronoun.

2769. DESPAIR.

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[Guilt: * Despair is bold; e'en when 'tis yok'd with It is the Attempt confounds, and not the Deed. 2770. GUILT cowardly and superstitious. 2. It is the very property of Guilt,

To relax the noble Strength of Mind, and think Most brain-sickly of Things.

2771. CHILDHOOD-readily made fearful. 'Tis the eye of Childhood

That fears a painted Devil.

2772. FEAR-excessive.

3. How is't with Man when every Noise appals 2773. GUILT her two Aspects.

[him. Guilt has two Aspects; of Allurement and of

Terror:

The first precedes; the second follows the Crime. 2774. EQUIVOCATION.

+ However it may deceive Man and prosper on Earth, there is no equivocating to Heaven."

2775. LUXURY.

2. Too many of all Professions go the primrose way to Destruction.

2776. EBRIETAS.

Ebrietas Appetitum accendit; Actum frustratur**. 2777. LABOUR not felt when the Pursuit interests. The Labour we delight in physics Pain.

2778. AFFECTION-active.

The Expedition of a violent Love Outruns the Pauser Reason.

* In Prælia trudit inertem.

HOR.

This Aphorism has been expresst here in Latin; for

a very obvious reason.

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2779.

courageous.

2. Prudence will hardly stop in any Peril Those who have Heart to love, and in that Heart Courage to make Love known.

2780. COURAGE.

3. 'Tis fit in sudden Dangers

Briefly to put on manly readiness.

2781. AMBITION.

Thriftless Ambition e'en will raven up
It's own Life's means.

2782. CHARITY-it's BLESSEDNESS..

4. The Benediction of Heaven is with those

Who would make good of bad, and Friends of

2783. SOLITUDE-SOCIETY.

5. Solitude makes renew'd Society

The sweeter welcome*.

2784.

6t. In the just Temper of heroic Virtue Wisdom is Guide to Valour.

2785. DESPAIR.

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7t. Dangerous are they who, wearied with DisasGladly would set their Life on any chance, [ters, To mend, as they imagine, or be rid on't.

2786. HYPOCRISY.

8. Hypocrisy wails those whom she strikes down. 2787. DESPONDENCY-solitary.

9. Despondency would ever keep alone,
Of sorriest Fancies her Companions making.
2788. EVILS past :-how to be considered.
10. Things without Remedy

Should be without regard:-but to avoid [like.
Those faults which caus'd, and may produce their

* Solitude sometimes is best Society, And short Retirement urges sweet Return.

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2789. GUILT-it's own TORMENTOR.

11. The Mind of prosperous Guilt is full of 2790. CONVIVIALITY.

[Scorpions. 12. The Sauce to Meat is kind and friendly cheer: Meeting were bare without it.

2791. MURTHER DISCOVERY.

Discoveries most mysterious have brought

The secretest Man of Blood.

2792. WICKEDNESS confirmed.

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2. Wickedness, when confirm'd, resolves to know By the worst means the worst; to it's own interest Forcing all other causes to give way.

2793. SLEEP.

3. Sleep is the Seasoner whose balm attempers All mortal Natures: but to treacherous Cruelty Not Sleep itself is Refuge.

2794. SECURITY-none less safe than those who think themselves most secure.

fA negligent Security

Is mortal's chiefest Enemy.

2795. CELERITY necessary to great Enterprizes, 4. A mighty purpose rarely is attain'd, Unless the Deed go with it.

2896. BOASTING.

No Boasting like a Fool.

2897. FEAR.

A selfish Fear dwells not with Love or Wisdom,

2898.

overpowered by AFFECTION.

The poor Wren,

The most diminutive of Birds, will fight,

(Her young ones in her Nest),

2899. ADVICE-officious.

against the Owl. [themselves.

2. Those who school others should oft school

2900. SUSPICION-political.

Too cruel are the Times when we are Traitors, And do not know ourselves, nor what we fear, But float upon a wild and violent sea,

And move each way.

2901. CALAMITY-Encouragement under it. Things at the worst will cease; or e'en climb upTo what they were before*.

2902. NARES-for whom chiefly.

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Traps are not set for poor Birds. 2903. GOOD and EVIL-often misconceived In a corrupted World to do much harm Is oft deem'd laudable; to do good, sometime, Accounted dangerous Folly.

2904. STATE RAPACITY-how remoteless. It is the basest Tyranny to forge Quarrels unjust against the Good and Loyal, Destroying them for Wealth.

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2905. PASSIONS-insatiable. 2. § To an inordinate and lawless Will, All its more having is but as a sauce

To make it hunger more,

2906. PRIDE and AMBITION-how malignant. 3. There are who had they power would confound All Unity on Earth, and desperately

Uproar the universal Peace, and pour

E'en the sweet milk of Concord into Hell.

A very able Writer and original Thinker has adduced an Argument of this Nature against Suicide: and has supported it by a singular and most affecting Instance.

This is not exactly true: nor will be, till the Appetite for Cruelty for Cruelty's sake ceases.

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