MLXXX. An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.Sterne. MLXXXI. Thick waters show no images of things; Friends are each other's mirrors, and should be Clearer than crystal, or the mountain springs, And free from cloud, design, or flattery. For vulgar souls no part of friendship share, Poets and friends are born to what they are. MLXXXII. Cath. Phillips. Observation is an old man's memory.-Swift. MLXXXIII. Sir S. Legend.-To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task. But, faith and troth, you speak very discreetly. I hate a wit, I had a son that was spoiled among them; a good hopeful lad, till he learned to be a wit, and might have risen in the State. But, a plague on't! his wit ran him out of his money, and now his poverty has run him out of his wits.-Love for Love. Congreve. MLXXXIV. Wit, and 't be thy will, put me into good fooling! Those wits that think they have thee do very oft prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may pass for a wise man: for, what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.-Shakspeare. MLXXXV. The immortal gods Accept the meanest altars, that are raised Massinger. MLXXXVI. Science distinguishes a man of honour from one of those athletic brutes, whom, undeservedly, we call heroes. Cursed be the poet who first honoured with that name a mere Ajax, a man-killing idiot!-Dryden. MLXXXVII. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, MLXXXVIII. Shakspeare. The vicious man lives at random, and acts by chance; for he that walks by no rule can carry on no settled or steady design.-Tillotson. MLXXXIX. 'Tis virtue which they want, and wanting it, Cynthia's Revels-Ben Jonson. MXC. The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.-Socrates. MXCI. Moderation, is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.-Fuller. MXCII. Heaven first, in its mercy, taught mortals their letters, Or some author, who, placing his persons before ye, MXCIII. Your legs do sufficiently show you are a gentleman born, Sir; for a man born upon little legs, is always a gentleman born.-Ben Jonson. MXCIV. Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. All precepts concerning kings are in effect comprehended in those two remembrances, "memento quod es homo;" and, "memento quod es Deus, aut vice Dei," the one bridleth their power, and the other their will.-Lord Bacon. MXCV. Were man But constant, he were perfect: that one error MXCVI. Shakspeare. If we estimate at a shilling a day what is lost by the inaction and consumed in the support of each man chained down to involuntary idleness by imprisonment, the public loss will rise in one year to three hundred thousand pounds; in ten years to more than a sixth part of our circulating coin.-Johnson. MXCVII. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'tis all barren-and so it is; and so is all the world to him who who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.-Sterne. MXCVIII. Grant, me, gentle Love, said I, Congreve MXCIX. We have now imprisoned one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We have now learned, that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud or avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.-Johnson. MC. "Tis not a tale, 'tis not a jest, Nor florid talk, which can that title gain, MCI. Though every old man has been young, and every young one hopes to be old, there seems to be a most unnatural misunderstanding between those two sages of life. This unhappy want of commerce arises from the insolent arrogance or exultation in youth, and the irrational despondence or self-pity in age.-Steele. MCII. Promising is the very air of the time; it opens the eyes of expectation; performance is ever the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable: performance is a kind of will and testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.Shakspeare. МСІІІ. I know a lady that loves talking so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue, that an echo must wait till she dies, before it can catch her last words.-Congreve. MCIV. We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.-Johnson. MCV. Would men learn but to distinguish spirits, They would admire bright knowledge, and their minds The Poetaster-Ben Johnson. MCVI. - Who can hold a fire in his hand, MCVII. In translations no nations might more excel than the English, though, as matters are now managed, we come so far short of the French. There may indeed be a reason assigned, which bears a very great probability; and that is, that here the booksellers are the undertakers of works of this nature, and they are persons more devoted to their own gain than the public honour. They are very parsimonious in rewarding the wretched scribblers they employ; and care not how the business is done, so that it be but done. They live by selling titles, not books; and if that carry off one impression, |