Honour is but a fictious kind of honefty; a mean, but a neceffary fubftitute for it, in focieties that have none; it is a fort of papercredit, with which men are obliged to trade who are deficient in the fterling cash of true morality and religion. Perfons of great delicacy fhould know the certainty of the following truth-There are abundance of cafes which cecation fufpence, in which, whatever they determine, they will repent of their determination; and this through a propenfity of human nature to fancy happets in thofe fchemes which it does not purfue. The chief advantage that ancient writers can boaft over modern ones, feems owing to fimplicity. Every noble truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural manner, in word and phrate fimple, perfpicuous, and incapable of improvement. What then remained for later writers, but affectation, witticilin, and conceit ? What a piece of work is man! how noble in reafen! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how exprefs and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in-apprehenfion, how like a Gol! If to do were as eafy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes palaces. He is a good divine that follows his own inftructions: I can cafier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching. Men's evil manners live in brafs; their virtues we write in water. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would defpair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. The fense of death is most in apprehension ; and the poor bectie that we tread upon, In corporal fufferance feels a pang as great, As when a giant dies. § 54. PROVERBS.' PROVERBS are allowed to contain a great deal of Wisdom forcibly expressed, it bus been judged proper to add a Collection of Englifb, Italian, and Spanish Proverbs. They will tend to exercife the powers of Judgment and Reflection. They may also furnifb Subjects for Themes, Letters, &c. at Schools. They are fo eafly retained in the memory, that they may often occur in an emergency, and serve a young man more efectually than more formal and elegant. fentences. Old English Proverbs. In every work begin and end with God.. The grace of God is worth a fair. He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wife man who will not. So much of paffion, fo much of nothing to the purpose. 'Tis wit to pick a lock, and steal a horse; but 'tis wifdom to let him alone. Sorrow is good for nothing but for fin. Love thy neighbour; yet pull not down thy hedge." Half an acre is good land. Chear up, man, God is ftill where he was.. He who perithes in a needlefs danger is the devil's martyr. Better Honour buys no beef in the market. When it rains pottage you must hold up your dith. He that would thrive must ask leave of his wife. A wonder lafts but nine days. The fecond meal makes the glutton: and The fecond blow, or fecond ill word, makes the quarrel. A young ferving, man an old beggar. A pennyworth of ease is worth a penny at all times. As proud comes behind as goes before. Where the hedge is lowest all men go well taught. Beware of the geese when the fox preaches. Rich men seem happy, great, and wise, All which the good man only is. Look not on pleasures as they come, but Love me little, and love me long. He that buys an houfe ready wrought, Hath many a pin and nail for nought. Fools build houfes, and wife men buy them, or live in them. Opportunity makes the thief. Out of debt, out of deadly fin. Quick believers need broad fhoulders. He who moft ftudies his content, wants it moft.. God hath often a great fhare in a little koufe, and but a little thare in a great one. When prayers are done my lady is ready. He that is warm thinks all are fo. If every man will mend one, we fhall all be mended. Marry your fon when you will, your daughter when you can. He that hath little is the lefs dirty. The greateft ftep is that out of doors. If all fools wore white caps, we should look like a flock of geefe. Living well is the best revenge we can take on our enemies. Fair words make me look to my purse. The shortest answer is doing the thing. He who would have what he hath not, fhould do what he doth not. He who hath horns in his bofom, needs None is a fool always, every one fome-not put them upon his head. times. Think of cafe, but work on. He that lics long in bed, his cftate feels it. The child faith nothing but what it heard by the fire-fide. A gentleman, a grey-hound, and a faltbox, look for at the fire-fide. The fon full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine. He who rifeth betimes hath fomething in his head. Fine dreffing is a foul houfe fwept before the doors. Difcontent is a man's worst evil. He who lives well fees afar off. Love is not to be found in the market. Thou art to me the Efcurial. He who feeks trouble never miffeth it. Good and quickly feldom meet. God is at the end when we think he is fartheft off. He who contemplates hath a day without night. Time is the rider that breaks youth. The perfuafion of the fortunate fways the doubtful. True praise takes root, and fpreads. Happy is the body which is bleft with a mind not needing. Foolish tongues talk by the dozen. Shew a good man his error, and he turns it into a virtue; a bad man doubles his fault. When either fide grows warm in arguing, the wifeft man gives over firft. Wife men with pity do behold Fools worthip mules that carry gold. In the husband wisdom, in the wife tlcnefs. gen. A wife man cares not much for what he cannot have. Pardon others, but not thyself. If a good man thrives, all thrive with him. Take care to be what thou wouldeft feem. war. None is fo wife but the fool overtakes him. That is the best gown that goes most up and down the house. Silks and fattins put out the fire in the kitchen. The first difh pleaseth all. God's mill grinds flow, but fure. He hath no leifure who ufeth it not. Wine is a turn-coat; first a friend, then an enemy, Wine ever pays for his lodging. Time undermines us all. Converfation makes a man what he is. The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor. The great put the little on the hook. Lawyers houfes are built on the heads of fools. Among good men two fuffice. The best bred have the best portion. Neither praife nor difpraife thyfelf, thy blood." actions ferve the turn. He who fears death lives not. He who pitieth another thinks on himself. He who once hits will be ever shooting, The faulty ftands always on his guard. He goes not out of his good inn. way who goes to a It is an ill air where we gain nothing. Every one hath a fool in his fleeve. Too much taking heed is fometimes lofs. 'Tis cafier to build two chimnies than to maintain one. He who hath the charge of fouls transports them not in bundles, Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lofe. When a lackey comes to hell, the devil locks the gates. He that tells his wife news is but newly married. He who will make a door of gold, must knock in a nail every day. If the brain fows not corn, it plants thiftles. A woman conceals what she knows not. Follow not truth too near at the heels, left it dash out your teeth. Say to pleafure, gentle Eve, I will have none of your apple. Marry your daughters betimes, left they marry themfelyes. Q 3 Every wife. Marry in hafte, and repent at leifure. Sir John Barley-Corn is the ftrongest knight. Like blood, like good, and like age, ́ ́ Make the happiest marriage. Every afs thinks himself worthy to frand with the king's horfes. A good beginning makes a good ending. One ounce of difcretion, or of wifdom, it worth two pound of wit." The devil is good, or kind, when he is pleafed. A fair face is half a portion, To forget a wrong is the best revenge. Man doth what he can, God doth what he pleafes. Gold goes in at any gate except that of The devil divides the world between athe-heaven. if and fuperftition. Good husbandry is good divinity. him. A fool, if he faith he will have a trab, he will not have an apple. Take heed you find not what you do not feck. The highway is never about. He lives long enough who hath lived well. Knaves and fools divide the world, No great lofs but may bring fome little profit. When poverty comes in at the door, love leaps out at the window. That fuit is beft that best fits me. If I had revenged every wrong, I had not worn my fkirts fo long. Self-love is a moat in every man's eve. That which is well done is twice done, Ufe foft words and hard arguments. There is no coward to an il! confcience, He who makes other men afraid of his wit, had need be afraid of their memories. Riches are but the baggage of virtue. He who defers his charities till his death, |