2036 Thy tongue and thy heart ought always to go together. What thou fayest should be maintained by what thou doeft.

2037 Never make a trial of fkill in difficult, hazardous, and dangerous cafes, when thou canft well avoid it.

2038 If thou art virtuously inclined, thou wilt fear more of two days of prosperity, than an hundred days of adverfitý.

2039 If thou wilt be catched in the fnare of appetite, thou art viler than a beaft, that has no reason to regulate him.

2040 Know this, that good works will never fave thee; but yet thou canst never be faved with

out them.

2041 In the difaftrous accidents of our lives, wherein thy own induftry and strength will not help thee, thy patience must.

2042 If it be obferved that thou indifcreetly telleft any one thing, it will be fufpected that thou wilt tell every thing.

2043 He that advised thee not to let the fun fet in thine anger, did not command thee to truft a 'deceiving enemy next morning.

2044 Thy rewards ought not much to exceed the merit of him whom thou conferreft them on, nor thy own eafy abilities.

2045 To

2045 To enjoy leifure well, it is necessary that thou employeft it in learning something that is worth thy while.

2046 Set a value upon thyself; there is no better means to preserve thy esteem with others.

2047 Those things which thou canst not amend, in thyself or others, thou oughtest to suffer patiently, till God order matters otherwise.

2048 Report not an ill thing that thou thyself knoweft not, but by the report of a man, who may lie or aggravate the matter.

2049 Thou wilt never talk too much when thou talkeft well; but thou always fpeakest too much when thou speakest ill.

2050 Be industrious and honeft in thy calling, thereby thou wilt ferve God, thy neighbour, and thyself.

2051 Perchance thy confcience can dispense with more than thy credit can. In that cafe avoid the scandal as thou wouldest avoid a sin.

2052 Glory not in making others drunk. What joy can't thou take in that victory where the Devil wears the garland, and the reward is hell.

2053 Compare what thou haft received with what thou haft deserved, and thou wilt fee thy fufferings have been fewer than thy fins.

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2054 Better

2054 Better turn thy eyes from what disliketh thee, and leave unto every one his own opinion, than ftrive with contentious words.

2055 Confider that the beauty thou art in love with is but a skin that covers fuch blood, and bones, and filthiness, as is in the ugliest wretch.

2056 Thou may'st learn virtue from those that have none, if thou abstainest from every thing thou obferveft vicious in their actions.

2057 Drive away and never endure tale-bearers. Whoever entertains thee with the faults of others, defigns to ferve thee in the fame kind.

2058 The time will come when thou shalt defire one day, or even one hour to amend in, and I cannot say it will be granted thee.

2059 Think with thyself seriously from whence thou cameft, whither thou art to go, and where thou art to be to all eternity.

2060 Thou canst not devife how more to vex a detractor than by contempt: thus thou fhalt force Spite to drink off her own poison.

2061 Avoid carefully thofe vices which moft resemble virtue; they are a thousand times more dangerous than others.

2062 Be thankful for what thou haft, and then thou wilt not be much difcontented for what thou wanteft.

2063 If

2063 If any man offend thee with too much impertinent talk, do not give him the hearing, and that will be revenge enough.

2064 Be not a man of many friends, for then thou wilt be a flave to many, and must share in all their cares, difquiets, and businesses.

2065 Of all kinds of conversation avoid jeering. One jeer feldom goes forth but it returns with its equal, and they together beget a quarrel.

2066 If thou perpetually readeft good books, and thy parts be answerable, thou wilt in time *take in a huge flock of knowledge.

2067 In matters of duty rather do too much than too little; but in matters of indifferency, rather take too little liberty than too much.

2068 of thou hast a mind to be bubbled, a most effectual way is, to fancy thou art wiser than thy neighbour.

2069 If thou affrontest the poor because of his poverty, which he brought not upon himself by his vices, thou affronteít God's providence.

2070 If thou favoureft evil, thou art worse than he that committed it. Thou acteft deliberately; but he was acted on by temptation.

2071 I would not have thee to love the fecurity and contentment of privacy and retirement, so as to be guilty of fingularity and affectation.

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2072 Ex

2072 Expect no affiftance from God, but then when that which thou enterprizeft is what he ap proveth of; and then thou art not wanting to thyfelf.

2073 Be not deceived. It is not that which men believe of thee will make thee happy or miferable; but that which thou believeft of thyself. 2074 Beware of common curfing or fwearing. There may be perhaps fome fort of excufe for fins that produce either profit or pleasure; but this hath nothing to fay for itself.

2075 Print it in thy thought, that what virtue foever thou haft, be it never fo manifold, if thou art poor withal, thou and thy virtues fhall be defpifed.

2076 There is nothing in earth worth thy stay, though heaven be worth thy waiting; therefore be content to live, and willing to die.

2077 Study how to raife and keep up reputa*tion from eftate, magnificence, virtue, parts, &c.

2078 Riches are given thee, that thou may'st pafs thy life eafily; but life is not given thee, that thou may'st keep up riches.

2079 Judge not the happiness of a man by one part of it birth, wit, ftrength, riches, honours. Where is the man that hath all his defires?

2080 If