difgraces, that which affects us moft is to fee no body bear a refemblance to us. We cannot with patience behold ourselves deftined to fuffer an unhappiness alone, which all the world may be affected with as well as we: and nothing fo much augments the sharpness of our afflictions, as the fiercenefs and pride of those who seem to brave and despise them.

987. Study makes a greater difference between a scholar and an ignorant man, than there is between an ignorant man and a brute. But the air of the world yet makes a greater distinction between a polite and a learned person. Knowledge begins the gentleman, and the commerce of the world compleats him.

988: By a little knowledge of nature, men become atheists; but a great deal returns them back again to a found and religious mind.

989. An English king will never be able to hold the ballance of Europe, if he knows not how to hold the ballance of England; for his reputation abroad will rise or fink, as his affairs go well or ill at home.

990. The tares have the privilege of the field, as well as the wheat; and the bad fish of the net, as well as the good. To communicate with fin, is fin; but to communicate with the finner, in that which is not fin, can be none. 991. Whenever you commend, add your reafon for doing fo: It is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of fenfe, from the flattery of fycophants, and the admiration of fools.

992. The only remedy against fear is the refult of virtuous actions, for those who do no evil, fear none.

993. Reputation is the faireft face of virtue, and foonest cheats the world.

994. There is as much policy wanting to fecure a reputation, as wit and learning to deserve it.

995. No man is ridiculous for being what he is, but only for the affectation of being fomething more.

996. It behoves every man, in the fearch of truth, to preferve a philofophical liberty, not to be fo enslaved to the opinion of any one, as to think whatever he fays infallible.

997. I would not have one of a great character endeavour to make himself inacceffible; nothing but a mean genius ought to be fhy of fhewing himself, as being conscious that his merit will not bear too near a fcrutiny; there is a medium between a haughtiness that despises others, and a familiarity that makes us cheap.

998. If you defire knowledge only to know, it is curiofity; if to be known, it is vanity; but, if to edify, it is charity; or that thou mayeft be edified, it is wisdom.

999. Curiofity is one of the strongest and most lasting of our appetites.

1000. It is conformity of inclinations that conftitutes friendship.

1001. There are none that contemn a bad fame, fo much as those who defpife the virtues that produce a good one; they that flight reputation, feldom value virtue, for when once they are indifferent to other people's words, they are commonly fo to their own actions; fuch I would avoid. How can you expect they will preserve your reputation, when they defpife their own?

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1002. Perjury is a fin that strikes like a fword with two edges, both against divine and human faith; it impiously appears to brave heaven itself, and is odious to all focieties on earth, flighting all folemn covenants made with God and man.

1003. It is dangerous to add power to them who only want will to do mischief.

1004. He that first invented the names. of Whig and Tory, has done the nation as much harm, as the gunpowder treason would have done it, if it had taken effect.

1005. We have lately had the hiftory of unfortunate favourites, it is pity the author has not given us, at the same time, the hiftory of princes that have been undone by them. I am fure this fecond part would have been as seasonable and useful as the first.

1006. Death happens but once, but the sense of it renews in all the moments of our lives; and the fear we have of it, is ten times worse than the fubmitting to it.

1007. Though the continued traverses of fortune may make us out of humour with the world, yet nothing but a noble inclination to virtue and philofophy can make us happy in retirement.

1008. There goes a great deal of art and address to make a denial go down, and by fair and civil expreffions, to fupply the kindness we cannot grant.

1009. Men are born to be ferviceable one to another; therefore, either reform the world, or bear with it.

1010. The generality of men feem fitter for those employments they have not, than for those they stand already possest of.

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1011. The aim of orators is victory; of hiftorians, truth; and of poets, admiration.

1012. Infamy, if thou art a mud-wall, will ftick; if marble, it will rebound.

1013. It is the ill fortune of a strong brain, if not to be dignified as meritorious, to be depreffed as dangerous. 1014. He that declines phyfic till he be weakened with the disease, is bold too long, and wife too late.

1015. Oftentimes a small lofs in an army, like opening a vein, does rather correct than any way impair the health; whereas too much profperity, like the worst furfeit, fuddenly becomes incurable.

1016. Rebuke thy fervant's faults in private, publick reproof hardens fhame; if he be paft a youth, ftrike him he is not fit for thy fervice, who, after wife reproofs, will either deferve thy ftrokes, or digest them.

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1017. We should speak modeftly of others before those whom we owe refpect to, who take little pleasure in hearing the praises wherein they have no part. To make a trade of fquandering infipid praises upon every body, is a very despicable character. Civility demands that we should be complimental upon fome occafions, but it is turning fool indifcriminately to beftow our compliments, learned by heart, upon all comers, and as foon as we accoft them, begin their panegyricks; there is nothing more naufeous to a judicious tafte, than thofe fulfome flatteries. I would rather have hard words bluntly faid to me, than hear those everlasting encomiafts, who are conftantly giving me an incenfe that makes me drunk, and gets into my head.

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1018. The fool does not difcern, and, confequently, cannot mind the good that is obvious, for his thoughts are still intent upon the future; but the prudent man retrieves things that were loft, out of oblivion, by strength of recollection renders them perfpicuous, and enjoys them as if they were prefent: Happiness having only a few coy minutes to be courted in, the man that has no intellects neglects this opportunity, and fo it flides away from his fenfe, and no more belongs to him.

1019. The mifery and happiness of the whole life of mortals, are themes fcarce worth a paffion. Whatever we endure as an evil, or poffefs as a good, are both fo fhort, that as the one need not fink us to an excess of grief, fo neither does the other deferve a paroxyfm of joy; a figh or a tear are enough for the firft, and a smile is too much for the laft.

1020. We are either made or marred in our education, and governments as well as private families are concerned in the confequence of it. Wherefore wicked difpofitions should be checked betimes, for when they come once to habits, they grow incurable. More people go to the gibbet for want of timely inftruction, difcipline, and correction, than upon any incurable pravity of nature; and it is mightily the fault of parents, guardians, tutors, and governors, that so many men miscarry.

1021. Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years to throw away: Look you, death stands at your elbow; make the most of your minute, and be good for fomething while it is in your power.

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