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What viler upon Earth than those false Friends

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§ Spend-thrifts, should fear false Friends when they do feast:

Suspect still comes when an Estate is least,

PROMISES."

Promising is most courtly and fashionable. 3760.

Promising opens the eyes of Expectation.

3761 SATIRIST

25. It is odds but the Satirist whips his own

Faults in other

Men.

3762, DAY not to be wasted.

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[Night, When the Day serves, before black, gloomy, Find what thou want'st by free and proffer'd Light, 3763. DECEIT SELF.

Few are deceiv'd so much by any as by them3764. CHANGE HEALTH. WIT [selves. 2. Men are not still the same; whom Misery Ease

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Plays the Recanter.

3766. WAR

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3767. CALAMITY-PUBLIC.

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3768. RETRIBUTION —national, States which have long gone on an and fill'd the With all licentious Measure, making their Will The scope of Justice, conte to evil End., to evil End. 13.

3769. WAR should discriminate, WAR-should

Not all deserve,

Stroke War.
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The REVENGE unnatural.

3770.

بعد

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Which Nature loaths-Man's Misery from Man.

3771,

Crimes, like to Lands,

Are not inherited.

3772. W

Limits.

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Use War at most t as the f the Redress of Wrong; Not as Destruction to the Enemy

3773.

A generous Conqueror suffers not a Man To pass his Quarters, or offend the Stream Of regular Justice in a captur'd City

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3774. STATION-high should be irreproachable. Suffer not Dishonor to approach

The' Imperial Seat to Virtue consecrated,
To Justice, Continence, and Nobility.,

$775. PATRIOTISM.

24. They sleep in Peace who in their Country's Fall, for her just Defence.

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Think, if to fight for King and Common-weal
Is Piety in thine, 'tis in thy Foes.

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3777. DEATH-the SEAL of VIRTUE. The safest Triumph is the funeral Pomp That hath attain'd to Solon's Happiness, And triumphs over Chance in Honor's Bed. 3778. POPULARITY—the true.

Ever, with Justice, be the People's Friend. 3779. JUSTICE.

Suum cuique.

3780. FRIENDSHIP.

3§. Lose not a noble Friend on vain suppose; Nor with sour looks afflict a gentle Heart.

3781. COURT.

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41. A Court is full of Tongues and Ears and Eyes, Vigilant as the fabled House of Fame.

3782, IMAGINATION.

5. The Heart suspects more than the Eye can see. 3783: TREACHERY.

"Tis a dread Wonder that Man's face can fold In pleasing Smiles such murtherous Tyranny.

3784. SORROW.

Sorrow conceal'd does burn the. Heart to cinder. 3785. MISCHIEF-rapid.

An hour's Storm will drown the fragrant Meads. 3786. CALAMITY irascible.

Losers will have leave

To ease, their Stomach with their bitter Tongues. 3787. LIFE without it's

social Energies.

moral, intellectual, and

That ever Death should let Life bear it's Name, When Life hath no more interest but to breathe,

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3788.

CRUELTY.

'Tis savage and unnatural to make sport
Of Deeds of Death done on the innocent,
How low soever in the scale of Nature;
Be it a Worm, a Fly,

3789, GRIEF.

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Grief so distracts the Mind,

It takes false Shadows for true Substances, 3790. BLUSHES.

Blushes will betray

The close enacts and Counsels of the Heart, 3791. EDUCATION-hardy.

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X An hardy Education best prepares. To be a Warrior and command a Camp* 3792. DISTRACTION.

28. By Day and Night attend it carefully, And soothe it's humor kindly as you may, Till Time beget some long-sought Remedy, 3793. GREATNESS;-true, above little Annoyances. Is the Sun dimm'd because Gnats fly before it. 3794.

The Eagle suffers

Mirds to sing

And is not careful what they mean by it,
Knowing, that by the shadow of his, wing
He can at pleasure shut their Melody.

3795, KINGS.

Kings should in Thoughts be royal as in Name.

3796. QATH,

He who believes no God reveres no Oath,

3797. CHASTITY.

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2. Dearer than Life is spotless Chastity.

* Rusticorum mascula Militum

Proles, sabellis docta ligonibus
Versare Glebas.

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TROFLUS AND CRESSIDA.

3798. WAR.

Now good, now bad!

Such is the chance of War*.

3799. FOLLY and SENSE.

* We sometimes find Folly sauc'd with Discretion, enough of it to make the Folly more notic'd.

3800, TALENTS without SYSTEM.

Q Some bave abundant Faculties, but want the commanding and combining Intellect to reduce them to Use and Order: many hands and no action; all eyes and no sight.

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3801, TEMPERINEQUALITY.

2. Those who are melancholy with slight cause will be merry with as little..

3802. EXPECTATION.

Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.
3803. GRIEF JAUNDICE,
Grief sets a Jaundice on the Cheek.

3804, HOPE magnifies.

The ample proposition that Hope makes In our Designs begun on Earth below,

Fails in the promis'd largeness.

3805. REMEDY,

The Nature of the Sickness found suggests

The Remedy-A5200

3806. BUFFOONERY,

2§. 'Tis wretched when the faint Defects of Age

Are made the Theme of Mirth,

3807. MALIGNITY SLANDER.

Malignity is the Mint of Slander.

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