LV.

It is always term-time in the court of Con

science.

LVI.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.-Dr. Barrow.

FROM

LONGMAN'S COLLECTION.

A

I.

RISTIPPUS being asked wherein the learned differed from the unlearned, said, Send them naked to strangers, and you shall see.

II.

A man inquisitive after every thing that is spoken ill of him, passes his time but very indifferently; he is wounded by every arrow that is shot at him, and puts it in the power of every insignificant enemy to disquiet him.

III.

Abundance is a trouble, want a misery, honours a burthen, baseness a scorn, disgrace odious, and advancement dangerous; only a competent estate yields contentment.

IV.

A smile may be reckoned the sunshine of the soul, that breaks out with the brightest distinction; it plays with a surprising agreeableness in the eye, and sits like glory upon the countenance.

V.

A wise man avoids as much to contradict, as being contradicted; and the more his judgment inclines him to censure, the more cautious he is not to publish it.

VI.

A covetous man may be compared to a sponge; what he with wondrous care has sucked up, his heirs commonly take pleasure in squeezing out.

VII.

All kind of wickedness proceedeth from lying, as all goodness doth proceed from truth.

VIII.

Blushing is so far from being necessarily an attendant upon guilt, that it is the usual companion of innocence.

IX.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches we can call our own, and of which we need not fear either deprivation or diminution.

X.

By reading we converse with the dead; by conversation, with the living; the former enriches, the latter polishes, the mind.

XI.

Custom is commonly too strong for the most resolute resolver, though furnished for the assault with all the weapons of philosophy.

XII.

Hate nothing but what is dishonest, fear nothing but what is ignoble, and love nothing but what is just and honourable.

XIII.

Divine contemplation and meditation, are the soul's wings that mount her to a glimpse of immortal felicity.

XIV.

Despair of success weakens the active faculties, cramps the powers of nature, cuts the nerves of our endeavours, and blunts the edge of all industry.

XV.

Devotion opens the mind to great conceptions, and fills it with more sublime ideas, than any that are to be met with in the most exalted science.

XVI.

Dispose of time past to observation and reflection, time present to duty, and time to come to Providence: your time is the richest part of your treasure, and every hour misspent, is a sacrilegious theft.

XVII.

Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour.

XVIII.

Every one would be thought to be in love with heaven, and yet few are willing to leave the earth; so much at variance is mankind.