DCCCXX. Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.Lord Bacon. DCCCXXI. How blind is pride! what eagles are we still There are some that profess idleness in its full dignity, who call themselves the Idle, as Busiris in the play calls himself the Proud; who boast that they do nothing, and thank their stars that they have nothing to do; who sleep every night till they can sleep no longer, and rise only that exercise may enable them to sleep again; who prolong the reign of darkness by double curtains; and never see the sun but to tell him how they hate his beams; whose whole labour is to vary the posture of indulgence, and whose day differs from their night but as a couch or chair differs from a bed.-Johnson. DCCCXXIII. 'Tis not safe for priests or courtiers to drink deep, for fear of throwing their hearts out at their mouths.Erasmus. DCCCXXIV. O, how I hate the monstrousness of time, DCCCXXV. He that will divide a minute into a thousand parts, and break but a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the affairs of love, it may be said of him, that Cupid hath clapp'd him o' the shoulder, but I warrant him heart-whole.—Shakspeare. DCCCXXVI. The understanding has something more to do than simply to judge us by our outward action; it must penetrate the very soul, and there discover by what springs the motion is guided: but that being a high and hazardous undertaking, I could wish that fewer would attempt it.-Montaigne. DCCCXXVII. He does mainly vary from my sense, Which gentleness and friendship do create. DCCCXXVIII. Terence. Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul: when men's passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.-Sprat. DCCCXXIX. It is a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh. -Dryden. DCCCXXX. Why will mankind be fools, and be deceiv'd? DCCCXXXI. "The folly of fools," that is, the most egregious piece of folly that any man can be guilty of, is to play the knave. The vulgar translation renders this clause a little otherwise, the fool turns aside to tricks; to make use of them is a sign that the man wants understanding to see the direct way to his end.-Tillotson. DCCCXXXII. A woman may properly be said to choose her husband by her eyes, who minds nothing but his person and bare outside; as she may be said to choose him by her ears, who carefully observes what reputation he has in the world, and what people say of him.-Erasmus. DCCCXXXIII. Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves; DCCCXXXIV. Shakspeare. A man that loves his own fireside, and can govern his house without falling by the ears with his neighbours, or engaging in suits at law, is as free as a Duke of Venice.-Montaigne. DCCCXXXV. Now, gentlemen, I go Prologue to Every Man out of his Humour-Ben Jonson. DCCCXXXVI. All false practices and affectations of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.-Sprat. DCCCXXXVII. I know not by what fate it comes to pass, that historians, who give immortality to others, are so ill requited by posterity, that their actions and their fortunes are VOL. II. S usually forgotten; neither themselves encouraged while they live, nor their memory preserved entire to future ages. It is the ingratitude of mankind to their wisest benefactors, that they who teach us wisdom by the surest ways, should generally live poor and unregarded; as if they were born only for the public, and had no interest in their own well-being, but were to be lighted up like tapers; and to waste themselves for the benefit of others.-Dryden. DCCCXXXVIII. The life of man is like water poured out of a bucket, which the earth quickly sucketh up, and appeareth not again.-Augustin. DCCCXXXIX. Humour, as 'tis ens, we thus define it, To be a quality of air or water, And in itself holds these two properties, A kind of dew; and hence we do conclude, In some one part, and are not continent, It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality powers, On his French garters, should affect a humour! DCCCXL. Ben Jonson. Otway has written but two tragedies, out of six, that are pathetic. I believe he did it without much design, as Liflo has done in his " Barnwell." It is a talent of nature rather than an effect of judgment, to write so movingly.-Pope. DCCCXLI. It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry, when what we search is excellent.-Cicero. DCCCXLII. Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie, than the will can choose an apparent evil.Dryden. DCCCXLIII. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, How many things by season season'd are DCCCXLIV. Shakspeare. As a looking-glass, if it is a true one, faithfully represents the face of him that looks in it, so a wife ought to fashion herself to the affection of her husband, not to be cheerful when he is sad, nor sad when he is cheerful.Erasmus. DCCCXLV. If men will shun swoln fortune's ruinous blasts, DCCCXLVI. It is of much importance in what times virtue appears. And there is no wit, howsoever excellent it may be, |