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Rekeves the load of poverty, sustains

The captive bending with the weight of bonds,
And smooths the pillow of disease and pain:
Send back th' exploring messenger with joy,
And let me hail thee from that friendly grove.

BOASTING.

My arm a nobler victory ne'er gain'd :

And I am prouder to have pass'd that stream,

Boadicea.

Than that I drove a million o'er the plain. Lee's Alexander.

PERPLEXITY.

Go, fellow, get thee home-provide some carts,
And bring away the armour that is there.
Gentlemen, will you go and muster men?
If I know how to order these affairs,
Disorderly thus thrust into my hands,
Never believe me.-All is uneven,
And every thing is left at six and seven.

REVENGE.

Richard II.

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Is he not fed with the same food, hurt with the, same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warned and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufference be, by Christian example? why, revenge. villainy you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hrd but I will better by the instruction. Merch. of Vere

REMORSE.

I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quar rel, but nothing wherefore. O that men should put an enemy. their mouths, to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves int

beasts?—I will ask him for my place again-he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible mar and by a fool, and presently a beast! Every inordinate unblest, and the ingredient is a devil.

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In the following Lessons, there are many examples of a or opposition in the sense. For the benefit of the learner, of these examples are distinguished by Italic letters; and: words so marked are emphatical.

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SELECT SENTENCES.

TEACHING.

CHAP. I..

To be very active in laudable pursuits, is the distinguishing characteristic of a man of merit.

There is an heroic innocence, as well as an heroic courage. There is a mean in all things. Even virtue itself has its stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

It is wiser to prevent a quarrel beforehand, than to revenge it afterwards.

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It is much better to reprove, than to be angry secretly. No revenge is more heroic, than that which torments envy, by doing good.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Money, like manure, does no good till it is spread. There is no real use of riches, except in the distribution; the rest is all conceit.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and live upon contentedly.

A contented mind, and a good conscience, will make a man happy in all conditions. He knows not how to fear who dares to die.

There is but one way of fortifying the soul against all gloomy presages and terrors of the mind; and that is by securing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who disposes of events and governs futurity.

Philosophy is then only valuable, when it serves for the law of life, and not for the ostentation of science.

CHAP. II.

Sud THOUT a friend the world is but a wilderness.

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Ason may have a thousand intimate acquaintances, and friend amongst them all. If you have one friend, think happy.

Ken once you profess yourself a friend, endeavor to be alAs such. He can never have any true friends who is always Changing them.

Prosperity gains friends, and adversity tries them.

Nothing more engages the affections of men, than a handsome address, and graceful conversation.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreea ble, and an inferior acceptable.

Excess of ceremony shows want ef breeding. That civility is best, which excludes all superfluous formality.

Ingratitude is a crime so shameful, that the man was never yet found who would acknowledge himself guilty of it. Few things are impossible to industry and skill. Diligence is never wholly lost.

There cannot be a greater treachery than first to raise a confidence, and then deceive it.

By others faults wise men correct their own.

No man hath a thorough taste of prosperity, to whom adversity never happened.

When our vicos leave us, we flatter ourselves that we leave them.

It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance as to dis cover knowledge.

Pitch upon that course of life which is the most excellent, and habit will render it the most delightful.

CHAP. III.

CUSTOM is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools. As to be perfectly just, is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man. No man was ever cast down with the injuries of fortune, unless he had before suffered himself to be deceived by her favor. 'Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rest only in the bosom of fools.

Nene more impatiently suffer injuries than those that are most forward in doing them.

By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but ia fassing it over, he is superior.

To err, is human; to forgive, divin”.

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man, than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.

The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself.

We should take a prudent care for the future, but so as to enjoy the present. it is no part of wisdom, to be miserable roday, because we may happen to be more so to-morrow.

To mourn without measure, is folly; not to mourn at all, insensibility.

Some would be thought to do great things, who are but tools and instruments; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ, when he only blew the bellows.

Though a man may become learned by another's learning, he can never become wise but by his own wisdom.

He who wants good sense is unhappy in having learning; for he has thereby more ways of exposing himself.

It is ungenerous to give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing, who perhaps may excel us in many.

No object is more pleasing to the eye, than the sight of a man whom you have obliged; nor any music so agreeable to the ear, as the voice of one that owns you for his benefactor.

The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery; the only benefit of which is, that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed what we ought to be.

The character of the person who commends you, is to be considered, before you set a value on his esteem. The wise man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world, him who is most wealthy.

The temperate man's pleasures are durable, because they are regular; and all his life is calm and serene, because it is innocent. A good man will love himself too well to lose, and his neighbor too well to win, an estate by gaming. The love of gaming will corrupt the best principles in the world.

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CHAP. IV.

Nangry man who suppresses his passions, thinks worse than he speaks and an angry man that will chide, speak than he thinks.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

It is to affectation the world owes its whole race of coxcombs. Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of his own making.

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It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance, and dazzled with every thing that sparkles; but great minds have but little admiration, because few things appear new to them.

It happens to men of learning as to ears of corn; they shoot up and raise their heads high, while they are empty; but when full and swelled with grain, they begin to flag and droop.

He that is truly polite, knows how to contradict with respect, and to please without adulation; and is equally remote from an insipid complaisance, and a low familiarity.

The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds, and one fault of a deserving man will meet with more reproaches, than ali his virtues praise. Such is the force of ill will and ill nature.

It is harder to avoid censure, than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age; but to escape censure, a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.

When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him, he answered: The earth cannot bear two suns, nor Asia two kings. Parmenio, a friend of Alexander's, hearing the great offers that Darius had made, said, Were I Alexander, I would except them, So would I, replied Alexander, were I Parmenio.

An old age unsupported with matter for discourse and meditation, is much to be dreaded. No state can be more destitute than that of him, who, when the delights of sense forsake him, has no pleasure of the mind.

Such is the condition of life, that something is always wanted to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence; and great designs, which are defeated by experience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them. We are able to plan schemes and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.

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