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Vanity of toiling for the knowledge which
death gives every fool gratis.
ix. Marriage.
128.
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X.
Harmony: an hieroglyphical and
shadowed lesson of the whole creation. Incu-
rables in physic, law, divinity. No catholicon
but death.
No man bad. Poisons contain their own anti-
dote. 'Lord defend me from myself,' part of
my litany. Nothing truly alone but God...
xi. My life a miracle of thirty years. Dreams. Are
we not all asleep? and the conceits of this life
mere dreams to those of the next?...
xii. Sleep. Bedward dormative.
131.
135.
137.
141.
xiii. Avarice a deplorable piece of madness, beyond
the power of hellebore. We may be liberal
without wealth. Poor men may build hospi-
tals, and erect cathedrals. Purblind statists. 142.
xiv. Charity; to love God for himself, and our neigh-
bour for God. All that we truly love is in-
visible.......
XV.
145.
No felicity in that the world adores. No hap-
piness but in obedience. Thy will be done!. 147.
CHRISTIAN MORALS. PART I.
i. Pursue virtue virtuously..
153.
ii. A triumph (not ovation) over thy passions....
154.
iii. Chastity. Adjourn not this virtue.
155.
iv. Be temperate, to serve God better...
v. Charity. Diffuse thy beneficence early.
vi. Charity. Give largely, widely......
vii. Avaricious men live but unto one world..
viii. The covetous merciless to themselves.
ix. Be grained in virtue; not lightly dipt.
Plain virtue. Have no by-ends..
156.
157.
158.
159.
xi. Law of thy country not the non ultra of thy
xviii. Bid early defiance to thy rooted vices.
xix. Be substantially great: thine own monarch.
164.
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XX.
Be deaf to calumniators: they relieve the devils.
xxi. Annihilate not God's mercies by ingratitude...
xxii. Conscience will shorten the great assize.
xxiii. Flattery is a juggler. Fall not into self-adulation. 169.
xxiv. Study the dominion of thyself.
166.
167.
168.
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169.
XXV.
The hand of Providence. Fortune hath no name
in Sacred Scripture.
171.
xxvi. Be content though poor. Yet fall not into affec-
tation of bravery.
172.
xxvii. Content may dwell in all stations...
173.
xxviii. Dross in all human tempers: but nothing totally
bad.
174.
xxix. Overlook not the mercies often bound up in
adversities.
175.
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XXX.
Pass not the Rubicon of sin. Merciful interven-
tions may recal us.
xxxii. Rest not under the merits of thy ancestors: shine
by thy own.
178.
xxxiii. Dull not away thy days in sloth. Tediousness
of doing nothing.
179.
xxxiv. Busy not thy best member in the encomium of
thyself.
180.
XXXV. Modesty preventeth a multitude of sins. Be
thankful for honest parents.
xxxvi. Soldiery: their heroical vein. The English gen-
181.
PART II.
i. Glut not thyself with pleasure. The strength
of delight is in its seldomness..
183.
ii. Zoilism. Human lapses not to be too strictly
judged.
185.
iii. Avoid dogmatism: let well weighed considera-
tions guide.
186.
V.
iv. Natural parts and good judgments rule the world.
Swell not the leaves of learning by fruitless
repetitions....
vi. Despair not of better things whereof there is yet
vii. Speckled face of honesty in the world.
viii. Weigh not thyself in the scales of thy own opi-
nion. Self-conceit a fallacy of high content..
193.
ix. Physiognomy. Schemes of look.
194.
Court not felicity too far. It sharpens affliction. 195.
xi. Ponder the acts of Providence. Judgments on
others, our monitions.
197.
xii. Good natured persons best founded for heaven.
xiii. To learn to die, better than to study the ways of
199.
dying.
200.
PART III.
i. No one age exemplary. The world early bad..
ii. He honours God who imitates him.
iii. Embrace not the blind side of opinions.
iv. To be virtuous by epitome be firm to the princi-
207.
ples of goodness.
208.
Guide not the hand of God. Repine not at the
viii. Let every division of life be happy in its proper
virtues.
212.
ix. Be able to be alone.
213.
The whole world a phylactery: wisdom of God
in every thing we see.
215.
xi. Think not to find heaven on earth: true beati-
tude groweth not here.....
217.
xii. Revenge; feminine manhood. If no mercy for
xiv. Live unto the dignity of thy nature. ...
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within
ourselves.
223.
xvi. Forget not the wheel of things, but beat not thy
xix. Oaths. Honest men's words Stygian oaths.
227.
Personate only thyself. Let veracity be thy
virtue in words manners and actions.
xxi. Labour in the ethicks of faith; not in old high-
strained paradoxes.
xxii. In seventy or eighty years one may have a curt
epitome of the whole course of time.......
230.
xxiii. Elysium of a virtuously-composed mind. For-
get not the capital end of living.
233.
xxiv. Inequalities of this world will be righted in the
world to come.
234.
The great advantage of this life, that it is exor-
dial to a better. ...
235.
longanimity of God......
xxvi. That the last flames are deferred, owing to the
xxvii. Wishes of good men for the world's bettering.. 238.
xxviii. The world seems in its wane.....
240.
xxix. The world a parenthesis in eternity. Parallel-
isms in different ages.
Join both lives together, and live in one but for
the other....
241.