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584.

The advantage of caution.

Things, done well,

And with a care, exempt themselves from fear:
Things, done without example, in their issue

Are to be fear'd.

25-i. 2.

585.

The power of prejudice.

There may be in the cup

A spider steep'd, and one may drink; depart,
And yet partake no venom; for his knowledge
Is not infected; but if one present

The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known
How he hath drank, he cracks his gorge, his sides,
With violent hefts 1.

13-ii. 1.

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Fearful commenting

Is leaden servitor to dull delay;

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

587.

Perseverance.

If we shall stand still,

24-iv. 3.

In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at,
We should take root here where we sit, or sit
State statues only.

588.

Determination with consideration.

25-i. 2.

What we do determine, oft we break. Purpose is but the slave to memory;

Of violent birth, but poor validity:

Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree;
But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be. 36-iii. 2.

589.

Precipitancy to be avoided.

Reason with the fellow,

Before you punish him,

Lest, you should chance to whip your information,

And beat the messenger, who bids beware

Of what is to be dreaded.

28-iv. 6.

1 Heavings.

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Our doubts are traitors,

And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.

591.

Suspicion.

If I mistake

5-i. 5.

In those foundations which I build upon,
The centrem is not big enough to bear
A school-boy's top.

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13-ii. 1.

Who finds the heifer dead, and bleeding fresh,
And sees fast by a butcher with an axe,

But will suspect, 't was he that made the slaughter?
Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,
But may imagine how the bird was dead,
Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak?

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22-iii. 2.

Imputation, and strong circumstances,— Which lead directly to the doer of truth. 37-iii. 3.

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We thought not good to bruise an injury, till it were full ripe.

595.

Theory and practice.

There was never yet philosopher,

That could endure the tooth-ache patiently;
However, they have writ the style of gods",
And made a pish at chance and sufferance.

596.

20-iii. 6.

6-v. 1.

The same.

The art and practic part of life Must be the mistress to the theoric".

20-i. 1.

mi. e. If the proofs which I can offer will not support the opinion I have formed, no foundation can be trusted.

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The style of gods, means, an exalted language; such as we may suppose would be written by beings superior to human calamities, and therefore regarding them with neglect and coldness.

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"T is pity

That wishing well had not a body in 't,

Which might be felt: that we, the poorer born,
Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes,

Might with effects of them follow our friends,
And shew what we alone must think P; which ne'er
Returns us thanks.

11-i. 1.

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"T is often seen,

Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
A native slip to us from foreign seeds.

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Never any thing can be amiss,

When simpleness and duty tender it.

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Let me know my trespass

By its own visage: if I then deny it, "T is none of mine.

11-i. 3.

7-v. 1.

13-i. 2.

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That sport best pleases, that doth least know how: Where zeal strives to content, and the contents Die in the zeal of them which it presents,

Their form confounded makes most form in mirth; When great things labouring perish in their birth.

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8-v. 2.

When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.

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Before the days of change, still is it so:
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust
Ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see

24-ii. 3.

Pi. e. And show by realities what we must only think.

24-ii. 3.

19-iv. 2.

The water swell before a boist'rous storm,
But leave it all to God.

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Against ill chances, men are ever merry;
But heaviness foreruns the good event 9.

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All unavoided is the doom of destiny,-
When avoided grace makes destiny.

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'T is dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points

Of mighty opposites.

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Miracles are ceased;

24-iv. 4.

36-v. 2.

And therefore we must needs admit the means,
How things are perfected.

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The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul, producing holy witness,
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart;
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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20-i. 1.

9-i. 3.

Thou can'st tell, why one's nose stands i' the middle of his face?

Why, to keep his eyes on either side his nose; that what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into.

34-i. 5.

Careless gaiety is the forerunner of calamity; vigilance, of success and permanent welfare.

Unavoidable.

"Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone."-Matt iv. 5-8.

610.

Solemnity.

All solemn things

Should answer solemn accidents.

Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toyst,
Is jollity for apes, and grief for boys.

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31-iv. 2.

Men may construe things after their fashion,
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

612.

Misconception of motives.

29-i. 3.

I am in this earthly world; where, to do harm,
Is often laudable; to do good, sometime,
Accounted dangerous folly.

15-iv. 2.

613. Judgment of weak minds not to be regarded.

What we oft do best,

By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is

Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as oft,
Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up

For our best act.

614.

Famine contrasted with plenty.

Famine,

25-i. 2.

Ere clean it o'erthrow nature, makes it valiant.
Plenty, and peace, breeds cowards; hardness ever
Of hardiness is mother.

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615.

Peace, in what sense a victory.

peace is of the nature of a conquest; For then both parties nobly are subdued, And neither party loser.

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31-iii. 4.

19-iv. 2.

Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage,
And purchase friends, and give to courtezans,
Still revelling, like lords, till all be gone:

While as the silly owner of the goods

Weeps over them, and wrings his hapless hands,
And shakes his head, and trembling stands aloof,

* Trifles.

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