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LOVE.

Love gives bitters enough to create disgust: love shuns the bustle of the bar, drives off relations, and drives himself away from his own contemplation. There is no man who would woo him as his friend: in a thousand ways is love to be held a stranger, to be kept at a distance, and wholly abstained from. For he, who plunges into love perishes more dreadfully than if he leapt from a rock. Love, get thou gone, then: I divorce thee from me, and utterly repudiate thee. Love, never be thou friend of mine. Go, torture those that are bound to thee. I am determined henceforth to apply my mind to my advancement in life, though in that the toil be great. Good men wish these things for themselves, gain, credit, honor, glory, and esteem: these are the reward of the upright. It is my choice, then, to herd with the upright rather than with the deceitful spreader

of lies.

Shakespeare has a somewhat similar passage in "Romeo and Juliet" (act i. sc. 1):—

"But all so soon as the all-cheering sun

Should in the further East begin to draw
The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,
Away from light steals home my heavy son,
And private in his chamber pens himself;
Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,
And makes himself an artificial night."

BAD AND ENVIOUS MEN.

EAT ONE'S CAKE AND have it.

You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal. Too late and unwisely-a caution that should have been used before-after he has eaten up his substance, he reckons the cost.

BEST WISHES.

Best wishes! What avails that phrase, unless
Best services attend them.

NO ONE OUGHT TO BE BASHFUL AT TABLE. At table no one should be bashful.

WILD OATS.

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There methinks it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats where they would not spring up.

LOVE.

It is with love as with a stone whirled from a balista; nothing is so swift or that flies so directly: it makes the manners of men both foolish and froward. What you would persuade him to, he likes not, and embraces that from which you would dissuade him. What there is lack of, that will he covet; when it is in his power, he will have I know what the manners of this age are. The none of it. Whoso bids him to avoid a thing, bad would fain corrupt the good and make them invites him to it; he interdicts, who recommends like themselves: our evil manners confound, dis-it. It is the height of madness ever to take up your order everything. The greedy, the envious, turn what is sacred to profane, the public good to private interest.

PASSIONS.

If you have vanquished your inclination and not been vanquished by it, you have reason to rejoice.

THE UPRIGHT.

He is upright who does not repent that he is upright; he who seeks only self-gratification is not the upright man, nor is he really honest: the man who thinks but meanly of himself, shows that there is a just and honest nature in him.

WHAT IS YOURS IS MINE.

For what is yours is mine, and mine is yours.

BE NOT OVER-GENEROUS.

I warn you before hand, that you have compassion on others in such a way that others may not have cause to have compassion on you.

THE WISE MAN.

A wise man, in truth, is the maker of his own fortune, and unless he be a bungling workman, little can befall him which he would wish to change.

Euripides (Fr. Incert. 72) says:

"I hate the wise man who is not wise for himself."

abode with love.

RELATIONS.

Never will he be respected by others who makes himself despised by his own relatives.

THE POOR.

'Tis worthy of the gods to have respect Unto the poor.

ABSENT FRIEND.

You should not speak ill of an absent friend.

THE BELL.

The bell doth never clink of itself; unless it is handled and moved, it is dumb.

LENDERS.

What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindthe choice of two things-either to lose your loan ness. If you begin to press him further, you have or lose your friend.

Axionicus (Fr. Com. Gr. p. 772, M.) says:

"When a good man lends money to the wicked, he receives grief for interest."

COAT NEARER THAN CLOAK.
My coat,

Dear sir, is nearer to me than my cloak.

This is the common proverb:-

‘Charity begins at home."

And in the Greek proverb (Athen. ix. 389):

NO GOOD UNMIXED.

"The knee is nearer than the calf of the leg." Tell me, was ever good without some little ill? Shakespeare (“ Two Gentlemen of Verona," act ii. sc. 6) or where you must not endure labor when you

says:

"I to myself am dearer than a friend.”

MOTE IN OUR OWN EYE.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

THE HEART.

Your tongues and talk are steeped in honey and milk; your hearts are steeped in gall and sour vinegar. You give us sugared words.

THE VICISSITUDES OF life.

wish to enjoy it?

OLD AGE IS SECOND CHILDHOOD.

When a man reaches the last stage of life,"Sans sense, sans taste, sans eyes, sans everything," they say that he has grown a child again.

EVERYTHING AWRY.

Never, I verily believe, was man so miserable as myself, nor one who had more everlasting crosses. Is it not the fact, that whatever thing I have commenced falls not out as I desire? Some evil

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is fortune comes across me still, destroying my best changeable.

WOMAN.

Whenever a woman once begins a fraud, unless see perfects it, she will find pain and grief and misery. If she begins to do what is right, how soon will she be weary. How few are tired with acting wrong; how very few carry it out, if they have commenced to do anything aright. A woman finds it a much easier task to do an evil than a virtuous deed.

SEEING IS BELIEVING.

One eye-witness weighs more than ten hear-says. Those who hear, speak of what they have heard; those who see, know beyond mistake.

VALOR.

The valiant profit more their country than the finest, cleverest speakers. Valor once known will soon find eloquence to trumpet forth her praise.

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If you would hasten in this direction, as you are hastening in that, you would be wiser; this way the wind is prosperous, only tack about. Here is a fair western breeze, and there the south heavy with rain. This spreads a peaceful calm, the Make towards the other stirs up all the waves. land, Charinus! Don't you see right opposite? Black clouds and showers are coming on. Look now to the left, how full the heaven is of brightness. Don't you see right opposite?

NO TRICKS ON TRAVELLERS.

No, no; no tricks on travellers.

MEN OF RANK.

Whene'er men of rank are ill-disposed, their evil disposition stains that rank.

PLINY THE ELDER.

BORN A.D. 23-DIED A.D. 79.

Shakespeare ("Much Ado about Nothing," act i. sc. 1)

says:

"Leonato. Did he break out into tears?

Messenger. In great measure.

Leonato. A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces truer than those that are so washed."

HIS LIKE.

Other animals live affectionately with their like; we see them crowd together and stand against those that are dissimilar; fierce lions do not fight with each other; serpents do not attack serpents, nor do the wild monsters of the deep rage against their like. But, by Hercules, very many calamities arise to man from his fellow-man.

CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS was born at Comum, or, as others think, at Verona, A.D. 23. After being educated at Rome, he went to Germany, A.D. 46, where he served under L. Pomponius Secun- MAN IS THE ONLY ANIMAL THAT FIGHTS WITH dus, being appointed to the command of a troop of cavalry. Towards the end of the reign of Nero he was procurator in Spain, where he was A.d. 71, when his brother-in-law died, leaving his son, the younger Pliny, to his guardianship. He returned to Rome in the reign of Vespasian, A.D. 72, when he adopted his nephew. He became the friend of the emperor, and was appointed admiral of the fleet The circumstances of his death are graphically described in a letter of the younger Pliny to Tacitus (Ep. vi. 16). He was overwhelmed and suffocated by the sulphureous exhalations fail to receive credit at all times, if one merely from the eruption of Vesuvius, A.D. 79, whither he had gone to examine the extraordinary phe

nomenon.

TO ASSIST MAN IS TO BE A GOD.

For man to assist man, is to be a god; this is the path to eternal glory.

THE MIGHTY POWER OF NATURE.

The power and majesty of the nature of things

looks at its parts and do not embrace the vast whole in our conceptions.

NO ONE IS WISE AT ALL TIMES.

No one is wise at all times.

BLESSINGS OF LIFE NOT EQUAL TO ITS ILLS. WHAT GOD CANNOT DO ACCORDING TO THE IDEA though the number of the two may be equal; nor The blessings of life are not equal to its ills,

OF THE ANCIENTS.

One of the chief comforts to man for the imperfection of his nature is, that God cannot do all things. For He cannot give death to Himself, even if He wished, the best thing He has bestowed upon man amidst the many calamities of life; nor yet can He give immortality to man, or recall them to life; nor bring it about that he who has lived, should not have lived, or he who has borne honors, should not have borne them; nor has He any power over the past except that of oblivion.

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can any pleasure compensate for the least pain. But Menander (884) says:

"In everything you will find annoyances, but you ought to consider whether the advantages do not predominate."

NOTHING BETTER THAN A SHORT LIFE.

Nature has given to man nothing of more value than shortness of life.

AN OLD HEAD ON YOUNG SHOULDERS.

That an old head on young shoulders was the sign of premature death.

MAN IS NOT IMMORTAL.

His last day places man in the same state as he was before he was born: nor after death has the body or soul any more feeling than they had before birth.

THE BRAIN.

Men have the brains as a kind of citadel of the senses: here is what guides the thinking principle.

MAN DESIROUS OF NOVELTY.

Man is by nature fond of novelty.

A MAN'S Own.

His own pleases each, and wherever we go the same story is told.

CHANCE IS A SECOND MASTER.
Chance is a second master.

A MASTER'S EYE.

Our ancestors used to say that the eye of the master was the best manure for the field.

WISDOM OVERSHADOWED BY WINE.

with its vanity. Thus, whether you perform It has passed into a proverb, that wisdom is what might be passed over without notice, or draw overshadowed by wine. attention to your own praiseworthy deeds, in either way you incur blame.

PLINY THE YOUNGER.

BORN A.D. 61.

C. PLINIUS CECILIUS SECUNDUS was the son of C. Cæcilius and Plinia, the sister of C. Plinius, the author of the "Natural History." He was born at Comum on Lake Larius, and was educated at Rome under the care of his uncle, who adopted him after the death of his father. He filled many offices in succession, was prætor A.D. 93, and consul A.D. 100. During the reign of Trajan he was proconsul of Asia, and it was then that he consulted the emperor respecting the punishment of the Christians. It is found in the tenth book (Ep. 97), with the emperor's answer (Ep. 98). Nothing is known as to the time of his death.

LITERARY STUDIES.

Are you enjoying the pleasures of literary study in that calm and rich retreat of yours? That should be the employment of your idle as well as serious moments; that should be at once your business and amusement; on that should be bestowed your waking as well as sleeping thoughts. Create and bring forth something which shall be really and forever your own; all your other possessions will pass from you to some other heir; this alone, if once yours, will remain yours forever. Thomas Hood says:

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Experience enables me to depone to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow;-how powerfully intellectual pursuits can help in

Addison says:

"Censure, says an ingenious author, is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping it and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and, indeed, of every age of the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defence against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invec tives were an essential part of a Roman triumph."

SOLITUDE.

I converse only with myself and books. Honest and guileless life! sweet and honorable repose, more perhaps to be desired than any kind of employment. Thou sea and shore, solemn and solitary scene for contemplation, with how many noble thoughts hast thou inspired me! Milton ("Paradise Lost," ix. 1. 250) says:

"Solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return." Byron ("Childe Harold," cant. iv. st. 178) says:"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar." Sir P. Sidney (" Arcadia," b. 1) says:"They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts."

DOUBT.

Though you may think it more safe to pursue this maxim, to which every prudent man attends, never do anything concerning the wisdom of which you are in doubt.

CONSCIENCE.

Such is his greatness of mind that he placed no

keeping the head from crazing and the heart from breaking." part of his happiness in vain-glory, but referred

FEAR OF STRONGER EFFECT THAN LOVE.

everything to the secret approbation of his conscience, seeking the reward of his good conduct not from popular applause, but from the simple

He is feared by many, a feeling which is gen- feeling of having acted virtuously. erally stronger than love.

POPULARITY OF THE BAD.

The popularity of the bad is as little to be depended on as he is himself.

REWARD OF VIRTUE.

Besides, I am convinced how much more noble it is to place the reward of good conduct in the silent approbation of one's own breast, than in the applause of the world. Fame ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions; and though it should not attend the worthy deed, yet it is by no means the less meritorious for not having received the applause it deserves.

Gay (Epist. iv.) says:

"Why to true merit should they have regard? They know that virtue is its own reward."

CENSORIOUSNESS.

For the disposition of men is that, if they are

Antiphanes (Fr. Com. Gr. p. 566, M.) says.—

"For to be conscious of no crime during one's life is a great pleasure." Shakespeare ("Henry VIII.," act iii. sc. 2) says:— "I feel within me

A peace above all earthly dignities,

A still and quiet conscience."

A DEAR BARGAIN.

For a dear bargain is always annoying, particularly on this account, that it is a reflection on the judgment of the buyer.

DEATH.

He died full of years and of honors, equally illustrious by those he refused as by those he accepted.

THE LIVING VOICE.

Besides, as is usually the case, we are much not able to obliterate an action, they find fault more affected by the words which we hear, for

though what you read in books may be more | gation from you, if you refuse a request, all former pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the favors are effaced by this one denial. look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind.

INVITATIONS TO DINNER.

I receive all my guests with equal honor. For they are invited to supper, and not to be labelled according to rank. I make every man on a level with myself whom I admit to my table.

PUBLIC STATUES MEMORIALS OF GLORY.

For if our grief is alleviated by gazing on the pictures of departed friends in our houses, how much more pleasure is there in looking on those public representations of them, which are memorials not only of their air and countenance, but of the honor and esteem with which they were regarded by their fellow-citizens.

FRAILTY OF HUMAN MONUMENTS.

Recollect how fleeting are all human things, and that there is nothing so likely to hand down your name as a poem: all other monuments are frail and fading, passing away as quickly as the men whose memory they pretend to perpetuate.

THE RIGHT OF A QUESTION CANNOT BE DISCERNED
IN A CROWDED MEETING.

The real gist of the question can only be clearly seen when you are separated from the clamors of a confused meeting.

VOTES.

The majority were swayed the other way; for votes go by numbers and not weight, nor can it be otherwise in such public assemblies where nothing is more unequal than that equality which prevails in them; for, though every individual has the same right of suffrage, every individual has not the same strength of judgment to direct it.

AN OBJECT IN POSSESSION.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charms which it had when it was longed for.

A STORY.

Give me a penny, and I will tell you a story worth gold.

LIFE OF MAN.

The life of man contains mysterious depths and skeleton closets.

Dickens says:

SENSE OF INJURY.

A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings.

THE BALLOT.

The elections have been lately carried on with excessive corruption, they have had recourse to the ballot, no doubt in the meanwhile a remedy, for it was new and suddenly adopted. Still I am afraid lest in process of time it should introduce new inconveniences; for there is danger lest shameless conduct should creep in under the cover of secret voting. For how few are there who preserve the same delicacy of conduct in secret as The when exposed to the view of the world? truth is, that many more men pay regard to the opinion of the world than to conscience.

MODESTY.

Modesty weakens the exertions of genius, whil effrontery gives strength to the wrong-headed.

Johnson says:

"Modesty in a man is never to be allowed as a good quality but a weakness, if it suppresses his virtue, and hides it fron the world when he has at the same time a mind to exert him self."

GENIUS THE GIFT OF HEAVEN.

But it is no doubt true that honors bestowed by man may be conferred on me and many others, whereas genius, which is the gift alone of heaven, is both difficult to attain and even too much to hope for.

Dryden ("To Congreve on the Double Dealer ") says:— "Time, Place, and Action may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born; and never can be taught."

MEN FOND OF PRAISE EVEN FROM INFERIORS.

Those who are excited by a desire of fame, are fond of praise and flattery, though it comes from their inferiors.

A WIDESPREAD REPUTATION.

For I know not how it is but men are generall more pleased with a widespread than a great reputation.

DISEASES IN THE STATE.

It is in the body politic, as in the natural, those disorders are most dangerous that flow from the head.

TO NAME THE MAN.

After I have named the man, I need say no

more.

"There are chords in the human heart-strange varying strings-which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. In the most insensible or childish minds, there is some train of reflection, which art can seldom lead, or skill assist, but which will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and when the discoverer has the plainest and simplest end in view." If you compute the time in which those revoluFAVOR REFUSED CANCELS ALL YOU HAVE CON- tions have happened, it is but a few years; if you number the incidents, it seems an age; and it is

FERRED.

TIME.

For however often a man may receive an obli- lesson that will teach us to check both our despar

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