Forgive others, who have fallen, and be on your guard, left you yourself fall. The angels in heaven, and the firft of our fpecies in innocence, have fallen.

The hand of time heals all difeafes. Human nature cannot long continue in violent anger, grief, or distress of any kind. Spare yourself immoderate uneafinefs. The time will come, when all these things, which now engage you fo much, will be, as if they never had been; except your own character for virtue, or vice.

If you live fuch a life, that you may be able, upon rational grounds, to be patient at the last hour, when your near friends lose all patience, you will fhew yourself a true hero.

Don't be uneafy, if you cannot mafter all sciYou may eafily know enough to be good

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He who fuffers luft to fteal away his youth, ambition his manhood, and avarice his old age, may lament too late, the fhortnefs of the useful part of his life.

If you have a family, it is no more allowable, that you fquander away your fubftance, than for a fteward to embezzle the estate, of which he is manager. You are appointed steward to your children; and if you neglect to provide for them, be it at your peril.

A truly great mind, from mere reverence for itself, would not descend to think a base thought, if it was never to be known to God, or man.

This book is not likely to be read by any, whofe ftation in life is not fuch, that thoufands, and millions of mankind would think worthy of envy. It will then be very ftrange, if it fhould be read by any discontented perfon.

He that has no fhame, has no grace.

*Before you think of retiring from the world, be fure, that you are fit for retirement. In order to which it is neceffary, that you have a mind fo compofed by prudence, reafon, and religion, that it may bear being looked into; a turn to rural life; and a love for study.

He, who is free from any immediate distress, and cannot be happy now, it is in vain for him to think he ever fhall, unless he changes the temper of his mind, which is what hinders his happiness at present.

Do not grieve for him who is departed out of a troublesome and dangerous ftate into a better. If a relation, or an acquaintance, is gone into the other world, wholly unprepared for it, his cafe is truly lamentable.

The advantage our paffions have over us, is owing to ourselves. We may easily gain fuch a knowledge of our own weakness, as to feel them rifing, before they be got to the heighth. And it is our own fault, if we do not reftrain them in time.

The most violent fhaking will not make the limpid water, in a glafs, muddy. But a little disturbance will defile that in the well, or river.

If it were not for the impurity in the mind itself, the fhock of temptation would have no effect.

Whoever knows his own weaknesses, and has the sense to endeavour to get rid of them, will find himself as fully employed, in his own mind, as a physician in an hospital.

It may not be in your power to excel many people in riches, honours, or abilities: But you may excel thousands in what is incomparably more valuable, I mean, substantial goodness of heart and life. Hither turn your ambition. Here is an object worthy of it.

Nothing is of any value to you, that you make a bad ufe of.

You cannot, you fay, find time to examine yourself, whether you are prepared for death. It is no matter, you must find time to die.

It is no matter what you spend your life in, if you neglect the very business of life.

You may acquire great knowledge, and be the worse for it at last.

Don't think of giving a fhilling, while you owe a pound.

Shall hypocrify get footing among Christians? and fhall a Heathen have the character of having rather defired to be virtuous than to be thought fo?

I know no fight more naufeous than that of a fond husband and wife, who have not the fenfe to behave properly to one another before company: Nor any converfation more fhocking, than

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that of a fnarling couple, who are continually girding at one another.

Confider, how uncommon it is to live to old age; and take care to hold yourself in constant readiness for death.

The unthinking bulk of mankind are ever amufing themselves with fome pursuit foreign to themselves. A wife man is ever looking inward.

It is no wonder if he, who reads, converfes, and meditates, improves in knowledge. By the first, a man converfes with the dead; by the fecond, with the living; and by the third, with himself. So that he appropriates to himself all the knowledge, which can be got from those who have lived, and from thofe now alive,

Let no man refuse a pardon to others, but he who does not need it for himself.

A very ignorant man may have a very learned library. A very learned man may be a very contemptible creature.

If it were safe to put off repentance and reformation to the very last day of life; how do you know, that this is not it?

Endeavour to do all the good in your power. Be as active, with prudence, as if you was fure of fuccess. When you meet a disappointment, let it not abate your diligence, nor put you out of humour. And when you have done all, remember you have only done your duty.

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The Dutch will not fuffer the fmalleft breach in their dykes, for fear of an inundation. Do not you fuffer the smalleft paffage for vice into your heart, left you find your virtue quite overflowed.

Do not be unhappy, if you have not married a profeffed beauty. They generally admire themfelves fo much, they have no love left for their husbands. Befides, it might not perhaps have been very agreeable to you, to fee every fellow, as you went into public places, look at your wife, as if he could devour her with his eyes. Take no counsel with flesh and blood; if you aspire at what is truly great.

A foolish youth makes a crazy old age.

Take care of natural byaffes, as felf-love, pleafure, &c. Be fure, you will always incline enough toward the byafs fide. Therefore, you need have no guard upon yourself that way.

The angels are faid in Scripture to defire to look into the Christian scheme, as if to learn fomewhat. Do not you then think it beneath you to learn, while you are fo much inferior to them. The most knowing are the most defirous of knowledge. The molt virtuous the most defirous of improvement in virtue. On the contrary, the ignorant think themselves wife enough; the vicious are in their own opinion good enough.

In beftirring yourself for the public advantage, remember, that, if you should not accomplish all that you propofe, you will however have employed

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