"The man who

them, or, as the Italian proverb says,
lives by hope will die by danger.”—Addison.

DCXXXIII.

As Rochefoucault his maxims drew
From nature, I believe them true;
They argue no corrupted mind
In him; the fault is in mankind.

DCXXXIV.

Swift.

How large a portion of chastity is sent out of the world by distant hints,-nodded away and cruelly winked into suspicion, by the envy of those who are past all temptation of it themselves. How often does the reputation of a helpless creature bleed by a report-which the party, who is at the pains to propagate it, beholds with much pity and fellow-feeling, that she is heartily sorry for it, hopes in God it is not true: however, as Archbishop Tillotson wittily observes upon it, is resolved, in the mean time, to give the report her pass, that at least it may have fair play to take its fortune in the world,-to be believed or not, according to the charity of those into whose hands it shall happen to fall.-Sterne.

DCXXXV.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfIsh temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.-Burke.

DCXXXVI.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection, must finish him.-Locke

DCXXXVII.

A declared gout is the distemper of a gentleman; whereas, the rheumatism is the distemper of a hackneycoachman or chairman, who are obliged to be out at ali weathers, and in all hours.-Chesterfield.

DCXXXVIII

There are women who do not let their husbands see their faces till they are married.-Not to keep you in suspense, I mean plainly that part of the sex who paint.

-Steele.

DCXXXIX.

If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world) if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.-Tillotson.

DCXL.

Unnecessary coinage, as well as unnecessary revival, of words, runs into affectation; a fault to be avoided on either hand.-Dryden.

DCXLI.

So weak are human kind by nature made,
Or to such weakness by their vice betray'd,
Almighty vanity! to thee they owe
Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe.
Thou, like the sun, all colours dost contain,
Varying, like rays of light, on drops of rain;
For every soul finds reason to be proud,
Tho' hiss'd and hooted by the pointing crowd.

DCXLII.

Young.

Education at our public schools and universities is travelling in a waggon for expedition, where there is a bridle road that will take you by a short cut to Parnassus, and the polisher has got the key of it; he has elocution for all customers, lawyers, players, parsons, or senators; readymade talents for all professions, the bar, the stage, the pulpit, or the parliament.—Cumberland.

DCXLIII.

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.-Montaigne.

DCXLIV.

Princesses, more illustrious for the blood that lightens in their cheeks, than for that which runs in their veins, like victorious monarchs, can conquer at a distance, and captivate by proxy.—Boyle.

DCXLV.

Men of wit and confidence will always make a shift to say something for any thing; and some way or other blanch over the most absurd things in the world.Tillotson.

DCXLVI.

Had Tully himself pronounced one of his orations with a blanket about his shoulders, more people would have laughed at his dress than have admired his eloquence. -Spectator.

DCXLVII.

At the theatre, when I see a fine woman's face unaltered by the distress of the scene, with which I myself am affected, I resent her indifference as an insult on my own understanding: suppose her to be savage, her disposition unsocial, her organs indelicate, and exclaim with the fox in the fable, O pulchrum caput, sed cerebrum non habet.-Smollet.

DCXLVIII.

How few are found with real talents blest!
Fewer with nature's gifts contented rest.
Man from his sphere eccentric starts astray;
All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.

DCXLIX.

Churchill.

Whereas the time and space of life is very short that is given unto man; as short as it is, yet sleep, as Ariston saith, like unto a false baily or publican, taketh the half thereof for itself.-Holland's Plutarch.

DCL.

If life a hundred years, or e'er so few,
'Tis repetition all, and nothing new :

A fair where thousands meet, but none can stay,
An inn where travellers bait, then post away.

DCLI.

Fawkes.

A dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.-Pliny.

DCLII.

The world's a hive,

From whence thou canst derive

No good, but what thy soul's vexation brings:
But case thou meet

Some petty-petty sweet,

Each drop is guarded with a thousand stings.

DCLIII.

Quarles.

He that is himself weary, will soon weary the public. Let him, therefore, lay down his employment, whatever it be, who can no longer exert his former activity or attention. Let him not endeavour to struggle with censure, or obstinately infest the stage, till a general hiss commands him to depart.-Johnson.

DCLIV.

To feel the want of reason is next to having it; an idiot is not capable of this sensation. The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.-Bruyere.

DCLV.

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own; so upon the matter, philosophy is nothing but discretion.-Seiden.

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DCLVI.

The true art of raillery is, when a man turns another into ridicule, and shows at the same time that he is in good humour, and not urged on by malice against the person he rallies.—Swift.

DCLVII.

The woman that has not touched the heart of a man, before he leads her to the altar, has scarcely a chance to charm it, when possession and security turn their powerful arms against her.-Mrs. Cowley.

DCLVIII.

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities. The pleasure of the religious man is an easy and a portable pleasure, such as he can carry about in his bosom. A man putting all his pleasures into this one, is like a traveller putting all his goods into one jewel, the value is the same, and the convenience greater.—Tillotson.

DCLIX.

The admiral of Castile said, that he who marries a wife and he who goes to war, must necessarily submit to every thing that may happen.-From the Italian.

DCLX.

To-morrow you will live, you always cry.
In what far country does this morrow lie,
That 'tis so mighty long ere it arrive?
Beyond the Indies does this morrow live?
"Tis so far fetch'd this morrow, that I fear
"Twill be both very old and very dear.
Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say:
To-day itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.

DCLXI.

Martia.

What a chimera is man! what a confused chaos ! what a subject of contradiction! a professed judge of all