251. The influence and importance of the female character.

252. Is the expectation of reward or the fear of punishment the greater in

centive to exertion?

of Augus

253. The value of time, and the uses to which it should be applied.
254. The character of the Roman Emperor Nero,- of Caligula,
tus, of Julius Cæsar,· of Numa Pompilius.

255. The duties we owe to our parents, and the consequences of a neglect of them.

256. How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

257. How dear are all the ties that bind our race in gentleness together. 258. The advantages of early rising; and the arguments which may be ad duced to prove it a duty.

259. Misery is wed to guilt.

260. A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
261. Still where rosy pleasure leads
See a kindred grief pursue,
Behind the steps that misery treads
Approaching comforts view.

262. 'Tis Providence alone secures,

In every change, both mine and yours.

263. Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below.

264. Prayer ardent opens heaven.

Whatever is, is right.

265. Knowledge and plenty vie with each other.

266. When beggars die there are no comets seen;

The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

267. Friendship is constant in all other things

268.

269.

Save in the office and affairs of love.

Man, proud man,

Drest in a little brief authority,

Most ignorant of what he 's most assured.

No might nor greatness in mortality

Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes.

270. They say, best men are moulded out of faults.
271. What we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,
Why then we rack the value; then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.

272. All delights are vain; but that most vain

Which, with pain vurchased, doth inherit pain. 273 Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile.

274 Too much to know is to know nought but fame. 275 Where is any author in the world

Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

276. The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.

277. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie

Which we ascribe to heaven.

278. The web of our life is of mingled yarn,

Good and ill together: our virtues would be
Proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our
Crimes would despair if they were not
Cherished by our virtues.

279. Let's take the instant by the forward top;
For we are old, and on our quickest decrees
The inaudible and noiseless foot of time

281.

Steals ere we can effect them.

280. They lose the world that do buy it with much care.
I can easier teach twenty what were
Good to be done, than be one of the twenty to
Follow mine own teaching.

282.

All things that are,

Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. 283. Love is blind, and lovers cannot see

The petty follies that themselves commit. 284. The world is still deceived with ornament. 285. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils.

286.

287.

288.

289.

The nightingale, if she would sing by day,
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren.

How many things by season seasoned are
To their right praise and true perfection.

This our life exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
Oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with trifles, to betray us

In deepest consequence.

I dare do all that may become a man,

Who dares do more is none.

290. If it were done, when 't is done, then 't were well

It were done quickly.

291. Memory, the warder of the brain.

292. Noughts' had, all's spent

293.

294.

Where our desire is got without content.

Things without remedy

Should be without regard.

When our actions do not,

Our fears do make us traitors.

295. Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

296. The grief that does not speak

Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.

297. Courage mounteth with occasion.

298. When fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
He that stands upon a slippery place
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

299.

300.

301.

302.

303.

301.

305.

306.

307.

308.

Often times excusing of a fault

Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,
As patches, set upon a little breach

Discredit more in hiding of the fault

Than did the fault before it was so patched.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!

That which in mean men we entitle patience,
Is pale, cold cowardice in noble breasts.
Woe doth the heavier sit

Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.
Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
O who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite,
By bare imagination of a feast?

Or wallow naked in December's snow,
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
Oh, no! the apprehension of the good,
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse:
Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more
Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
The better part of valor is discretion.
See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
He that but fears the thing he would not know
Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes,
That what he feared, is chanced.

309. Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live,

But to the earth some special good doth give; Nor aught so good, but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse, Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometimes 's by action dignified. 310. Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. 311. O reason not the need; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's.

212.

Give thy thoughts no tongue,

Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
313. The friends thou hast and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.
Beware

314.

Of entrance to a quarrel: but, being in, Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. 315. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. 316. The apparel oft proclaims the man. 317. Neither a borrower nor a lender be;

318.

319.

For loan oft loseth both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry
To thine own self be true;

And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Trifles, light as air,

Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.