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MAXIMS: 
 
 POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, 
 
 AND 
 
 MORAL, 
 
 EDWARD COUNSEL 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 TWENTY THOUSAND (20,000) 
 
 ORIGINAL AIUS, 
 
 AND OTHER MUSICAL PIECES. 
 " MELODIES OF ERIN." 
 
 Two LECTURES. 
 FOUR HUNDRED DESIGNS, ETC. 
 
 MELBOURNE: 
 
 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR BY 
 
 A. H. MASSINA & CO., PRINTERS & PUBLISHERS, 
 
 277 AND 279 LITTLE COLLINS STREET. 
 
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MAXIMS: 
 
 POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, 
 
 AND 
 
 MORAL, 
 
 BY 
 
 EDWARD ^COUNSEL 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 TWENTY THOUSAND (20,000) 
 
 ORIGIN AIj AIRS, 
 
 AND OTHER MUSICAL PIECES. 
 " MELODIES OF ERIN." 
 
 Two LECTURES. 
 HUNDRED DESIGNS, ETC. 
 
 >> 0? THE - x 
 
 flYEE^Tr 
 S& 
 
 
 MELBOURNE: 
 
 Pni'NTED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR BY 
 
 A. H. MASSINA A- CO., PRINTERS & PUBLISHERS, 
 
 277 AND 279 LITTLE COLLINS STREET. 
 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 IN submitting to the Australian public the following 
 Maxims and Beflections, the author deems it necessary 
 to offer a few introductory remarks, so as to arrive at a 
 proper understanding of his motives in publishing the 
 present unpretentious volume. 
 
 It was originally my intention to have preceded this 
 volume of Maxims by issuing a selection of my " Melodies 
 of Erin" (as songs), some of which are although still, 
 I . regret to say, in manuscript publicly known in 
 Melbourne ; but not meeting the encouragement I was 
 led to expect from some of our Melbourne music pub- 
 lishers, I have been induced to publish the present 
 volume. 
 
 I have composed probably more original airs, and 
 other varieties in the way of music, than any other 
 musical writer in the world exceeding twenty-thousand 
 (20,000). 
 
 A list of these, as also my other productions, may be 
 consulted in the APPENDIX. 
 
 MAXIMS exert no small influence upon our lives and 
 faculties. They are inward monitors directing the actions 
 and motives to be pursued in every imaginable under- 
 taking, not only of individuals but of nations. 
 
 Unvoiced Maxims have ruled, and will continue to 
 rule, the destinies of all nations. Their influence lasts 
 through all time. Philosophy (first acquired, probably, by 
 the knowledge of human errors), like nature, is ever 
 renewing her strength. 
 
iv. PREFACE. 
 
 It is the common possession of all common as the 
 blood that supports the air we breathe universal as are 
 our perceptions and faculties ; and, if we but reasoned 
 justly, we would discover at the close of our investigations 
 that all men are originally created on a dead level of 
 intellect. 
 
 There are degrees of effect and cause. One produces 
 many ; but each man can contribute infinitely. 
 
 If there are grave mysteries in nature not to be un- 
 folded yet, why repine, my friends? What we are 
 already possessed of if we but exercise the faculty 
 may be termed an infinite possession. 
 
 In my theory at the universal melodic composing 
 (themal) faculty, for instance from investigations I 
 have made, supported, too, by some undoubted proofs 
 I have come to the astounding conclusion that all 
 human beings, without exception, possess the germs of 
 a creative original melodic composing faculty ; I have 
 even formulated some theories on the subject, and 
 delivered a lecture recently unfolding my discoveries. 
 
 I am prepared to admit, however, that in the majority 
 of instances the faculty may be dormant or latent, 
 simply for the want of being exercised. 
 
 A philosophy certainly very flattering to human 
 nature. 
 
 Perhaps I may be afforded the opportunity of read- 
 ing my lecture upon this subject before a Melbourne 
 audience. 
 
 To return. Some of the following Eeflections or 
 Aphorisms are essentially speculative, and, consequently, 
 have not arrived to the dignity of settled opinions. 
 
 Let this fact be distinctly understood in the examen or 
 discussion of the propositions. 
 
 I do not hold myself responsible for the misapplication 
 of any of my theories. If some of the Maxims have a 
 political bearing, nothing of a revolutionary tendency is 
 attempted to be propounded ; moreover, the author being 
 a Koman Catholic, every proposition is necessarily 
 advanced in accordance with, and subject to, the great 
 principles of CATHOLICITY. 
 
Some of the ideas and positions here attempted to be 
 advanced contain if we look under the surface with a 
 just and liberal interpretation the germs, I think, of new 
 philosophic principles ; for under every idea lies a 
 philosophy leading each in turn to an infinitude of 
 systems. Yet, should they be considered merely in the 
 light of speculative enquiry, may not be altogether 
 devoid of fruit. Whatever shows the force of unchang- 
 ing truth and philosophic conviction in a new or unusual 
 light is not wholly lost as contributing to the general 
 progress of thought, no less than of material advance- 
 ment. 
 
 Ideality surrounds us as by a circle or halo ; mentality 
 is infinite in productive faculty ; yet, in all probability 
 the greatest will never (?) be unearthed. 
 
 We can assemble upon this common ground of faculty 
 by contributing to the great Eepublican store of true 
 literature which is wisdom the endless legacy, the 
 eternal possession of all mankind, the parent of all our 
 thoughts and faculties. 
 
 Perhaps it may be urged as an objection that I dog- 
 matise too frequently. 
 
 But when I state that I adopt that method of inculcat- 
 ing the ideas here humbly submitted to the judgment of 
 the candid and judicious enquirer after truth, it is solely 
 for the purpose of condensing the matter. 
 
 Such a cause of treatment, it will be seen, was insepar- 
 able from a discussion of the subjects under examination. 
 
 I speak not as one possessing authority in any way. 
 
 It behoves us in these enquiries i.e., in speculations 
 involving mysteries and indeterminate positions ever to 
 be humble in spirit ; for to be abject is to be wise. 
 
 The positions in many cases are advanced in maxim 
 form, but not decided submitted to the judgment of my 
 readers totally removed from any show of authority on 
 the part of the author. 
 
 The absence of notes, explanatory matter, etc., may 
 be remarked. Let be; estd bueno. 
 
VI. PREFACE. 
 
 I was not born to be a commentator. 
 
 I survey the field ; let the draughtsman come after to 
 fill in the details. 
 
 Read but to weigh ; and, if possible, add to the ideas 
 here promulgated, for the human mind is more capable 
 of producing than of receiving, and there are no termini 
 to the operations of the human intellect when once fairly 
 aroused or called into existence. 
 
 Let them be improved upon, disseminated, tested. 
 
 To all mankind is granted, as a divine legacy, the 
 wisdom of IDEAS. 
 
 Rather than ask for " more light," let us use the light 
 from within exert and bring forth our innate faculties 
 for the progress and benefit of our fellow-man. True 
 
 Progress is attained by interchange of thought and bene- 
 ts, and thereby unite all men in the great bond of 
 progress brotherhood amity. 
 
 There is an eternal spring of ideas and faculties in 
 man, did he but call them forth. 
 
 The practical adaptation of our theories (which are solely 
 literary in their aspects, and do not entrench in any way 
 upon the domain of doctrine) must not, in our enquiries, 
 be overlooked. 
 
 The objections to " mere theory " are, perhaps, as 
 universal as are the theories the much abused theories 
 themselves. 
 
 Strange infatuation and contradiction in man ! 
 
 What is theory, and what is practice ? 
 
 Why, without the theory you, cannot have the practice. 
 
 They are inseparable. 
 
 Two fruits it may be, but growing on the same tree ; 
 or place it in this light : 
 
 Theory is the seed, practice the fruit. Aye, and unless 
 we sow the seed reap cannot we the fruit. Is it not well ? 
 
 We must still look to the discriminating public in the 
 first place, to societies and publishers, and to men of 
 worth and influence in the social scale, to leaders of 
 
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 public opinion, to government (the philosophy of power), 
 for the promulgation of just ideas tending to the welfare 
 that significant watchword of the philanthropist the 
 progress and intellectual advancement of the masses. 
 
 But the reader is necessary as the book, for what is 
 unknown is lost. 
 
 That men would but exercise these endless faculties 
 implanted in his nature by a beneficent and all-wise 
 Creator for the common benefit of us all. 
 
 Oh, this glorious domain of infinite perception and 
 faculty ! 
 
 IDEAS will outlive the epoch of empire and of dynasties ; 
 nay, all that the universe contains of a very necessity 
 sprung from one idea that of the OMNIPOTENT the 
 infinite ONE ; and wisdom, the eternal undying sentiment, 
 His thoughts, from which ours are derived in the primal 
 cause. 
 
 The soul's meditation Wisdom interidealise the 
 universe. 
 
 From the WORD all things have arisen 
 
 Or, to present the idea in the Spanish as befitting the 
 majesty of the subject : 
 
 Las palabras de Dios son acciones. 
 
 Yet, in all let there be a well-defined a practical 
 object : 
 
 The welfare the progress of human nature. 
 This is a glorious mission and the best part. 
 This is the furnace that will try their merit. 
 
 One part of the picture I have finished ; the other the 
 knowledge of it lies in the future. 
 
 EDWARD COUNSEL. 
 

MAXIMS: 
 
 POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, 
 
 AND 
 
 MOKAL. 
 
 BY 
 
 EDWARD COUNSEL, 
 
 AUTHOR 
 
 OF 
 
 > 
 
 TWENTY THOUSAND ORIGINAL AIRS, &c. 
 
 1. The words of God are deeds. 
 
 2. Jur.t the truth, and that truth just. 
 
 3. Reason is the touchstone of philosophy. 
 
 4. From THE WORD all things have arisen ; a co-eter- 
 nal thought produced the world. 
 
 5. 111 success is the contempt of fortune. 
 
 6. Hope hath a large mouth. 
 
 7. If we could unfold the future, the present would be 
 our greatest care. 
 
 8. Law is oftentimes the shield of the despot. 
 
 9. To obey a despot is not allegiance. ^ 
 
 10. Time is never idle with its, although we may idle v 
 with time. 
 
 11. Hope is the helpmate of patience. 
 
 12. Constancy is the mansion of truth. 
 
 13. For the good of the people for the good of the 
 state. 
 
 14. Truth is the right hand of God. 
 
 15. Jealousy is the daughter of fame. 
 
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 16. Virtue must govern. 
 
 17. Ideas lead revolutions. 
 
 18. Death is just to the just. 
 
 19. Do not walk on both paths. 
 
 20. We must be abject to be wise. 
 
 21. Money is the test of friendship. 
 
 22. We cannot exist without we think: to think is 
 to be (to exist). What can reproduce mind? When can 
 our ideas really be said to be exhausted ? The more we- 
 think or write the more we may. 
 
 23. All that is good is great. 
 
 24. Consider not one fault where there are many 
 virtues. 
 
 25. Beauty is but for a day. 
 
 26. Use Nature well and she will recompense thee 
 well. 
 
 27. Enmity hath a large tether, but the chain often 
 ends at destruction. 
 
 28. All is part of time ; time never ends itself, but 
 ends all. 
 
 29. What will be may (?) be resolved ; what is not 
 capable of being resolved cannot, perforce, be ; but it does 
 not lie with us, neither is it our mission, to resolve all. 
 
 30. Wisdom is the energia and phasis of the Deity. 
 
 31. Truth is a certain foundation. 
 
 32. That which is indestructible (not admitting the 
 possibility of being destroyed) must be in its very 
 essence eternal. The soul is therefore immortal, and 
 eternally co-existing with the mind and faculties as 
 not admitting, and being incapable of, destruction. The 
 thoughts are of and from the soul. This is possible; 
 and, being so, is conformable to reason (the perceptive- 
 faculty of right.) Even improbability must have a 
 basis of probability to work upon. 
 
 33. Repentance is nothing but mockery when it comes 
 too late. 
 
 34. Genius cannot be bought with gold. 
 
 35. Fancy is the golden-flower of reason. 
 
 36. Health is the best wealth. 
 
 37. The way to true wealth is by the paths of honesty, 
 
 38. Away ambition ! false hourly phantom ! 
 
 39. None are free from slander. 
 
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 ^ 40. Death ! where is thy conqueror ? 
 
 41. All have their miseries incorporated with our 
 nature ; he is not truly a man who has not experienced 
 adversity. 
 
 42. Two roads lead before thee ; which wilt thou 
 follow ? 
 
 43. Grapple with fortune stoutly you will prove 
 victorious if firm. 
 
 44. To be immoderate in anything is to be moderate 
 in nothing. 
 
 45. If you intend well there is no cause for shams. 
 
 46. You love drink, and yet you like not poison. 
 
 47. Do not call every wind a tempest. 
 
 48. A charitable mind cannot harbour envy. 
 
 49. If you are honest you are prudent. 
 
 50. Idle thoughts are foes to industry. 
 
 51. Be firm, but not stoical(f he who does not mind the / 
 storm may perish by it.J 
 
 52. Money, like a running horse, should be kept 
 well-in-hand. 
 
 53. Any one may have the power of doing good. 
 
 54. People admire science, but love art. 
 
 55. Scorn not those of inferior station. Flatter not 
 those above thee. 
 
 56. Be true to thy truthful yearnings. 
 
 57. Ask me for time and offend me. 
 
 58. Talk not to men of what they know not. Talk to 
 a carpenter about wood ; to a mason of stone. 
 
 59. There are more actors in real life than upon the 
 stage. 
 
 60. Consider thy meals as a duty, not pleasure. 
 
 61. Merit is not always appreciated. 
 
 62. An original melody is worth a thousand fantasias* 
 Your " scientific " melody is an abomination ; " science "" 
 is the bane of all true melody. 
 
 63. Show a bold front to a dog. 
 
 64. Woe be to the nations that profess not arms. 
 
 65. Pride is useless. 
 
 66. Walk only on the common road when a better 
 cannot be found. 
 
 67. Every state in life has its sorrows. 
 
 68. If thou art just, fear nought thai can be said of thee. 
 
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 69. In all let there be virtue. 
 70. Ask of those who can give. 
 71. Judge not from the face. 
 
 72. Avoid extremes. Violent exposures to heat and 
 cold beget cramps. 
 
 73. Do not sit on a hedge and then say thou art 
 unknown. 
 
 74. It is better to be brave where discretion is useless. 
 75. If the vicious have no shame, shall the virtuous 
 have ? 
 
 76. Be not turned from the course by a straw. 
 77. We know not what the child may become. 
 78. In conversation suit yourself to your hearers. 
 79. Evil is not advantageous to a people. 
 80. War is sometimes the security of life. 
 81. Even a successful war is a loss to most families. 
 82. Gold requires no lexicon. 
 
 83. Guilt is always present to the mind (of the guilty). 
 84. It is good in life (as in physic) to deviate from the 
 common road sometimes. 
 
 85. Too many commanders spoil the victory. 
 86. You know not who is your friend until you prove 
 it (him). 
 
 87. A fool is better than a knave. 
 
 88. Decide and begin. 
 
 89. Men like to talk of themselves. 
 
 90. Epitaph (to a scornful reader) : I have died to 
 live ; thou art living to die. 
 
 91. Variety is pleasing in discourse. 
 
 92. If you have done anything worthy praise, say not 
 that you are unworthy of it. 
 
 93. It is better to be happy than to be great. 
 
 94. There is no thornless path in the world. 
 
 95. There is a road to every house. 
 
 96. Neglect not business for pleasure. 
 
 97. Intend well and you will do well, for the good 
 intent redeems. 
 
 98. No one has a right to call another fool. 
 
 99. Wise men know each other. 
 100. To delay sometimes is to lose. 
 101. Riches cannot be compared to wisdom. 
 102. To be independent is to be rich. 
 
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 103. Talent how dear to the possessor of it. 
 
 104. To lose often is to gain. 
 
 105. Those who want shame ought also to want mercy 
 from others. 
 
 106. Those who praise nature often cannot bear the 
 sight (site) of trees. 
 
 107. Keceive all in honesty. 
 
 108. Forget not a favour done thee. 
 
 109. Language is the parent of words. 
 
 110. Savages do not want eloquence. 
 
 111. To seem wise often is to be so. 
 
 112. Imitation is not genius. 
 
 113. There are other things besides fame. 
 
 114. To be artful in everything is to be natural in 
 nothing. 
 
 115. Order in battle is greater than numbers. 
 
 116. Arms and armour are of little account if what 
 they cover be faint-hearted. 
 
 117. Bad citizens often make good soldiers. 
 
 118. Do not labour and destroy again. 
 
 119. When there is no law but that of the sword, let 
 the people look to themselves. 
 
 120. Liberty is often praised by those who practise 
 despotism. 
 
 121. To have liberty with a despot is to be a slave. 
 
 122A-Slavery is evil. 
 
 123. There is but right and wrong. 
 
 124. Different people prefer different things. 
 
 125. Let the marriage bed be inviolate. 
 
 126. Love often moves the sternest. 
 
 127. Destruction (often) lurks in women's eyes. 
 
 128. A virtuous woman deserves a good husband. 
 
 129. Mind not frivolous pursuits. 
 
 130. To please often is to conquer. 
 
 131. A word makes thy fortune sometimes. 
 
 132. The vicious have a wholesome fear of the law. 
 
 133. A numerous and powerful people should not 
 allow bad laws to be imposed upon them. 
 
 134. Against God and fallen ! 
 
 135. Let those be destroyed who are against the 
 common good. 
 
 136. Nations must bow to events. 
 
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 137. What is justice in one place is injustice in 
 another. 
 
 138. Envy not the dying but pity. 
 
 139. Believe not every one. 
 
 140. Pity and love are nearly allied. 
 
 141. To admire is not always to praise. 
 
 142. Let not the chance of doing good go by. 
 
 143. To be silent oft is to learn. 
 
 144. Beware of those who flatter. 
 
 145. Write with art, but learn from nature. 
 
 146. Dogmatism does not carry conviction (always). 
 
 147. To be sincere is better than to be polite. 
 
 148. A suitable employment is a preservative of 
 virtue. 
 
 149. Of the thousands in the amphitheatre, there was 
 but one Virgil. 
 
 150. How often does hypocrisy impose (upon us). 
 
 151. Do not know everything. 
 
 152. Encourage industry. 
 
 153. Do not run into water and then blame another 
 for taking you out. 
 
 154. The powerful are harmed very little by ridicule. 
 
 156. Turn not at every corner ; stop not to examine all. 
 
 156. To see some things once is too often. 
 
 157. Honour is the cause often of ruin to families 
 and generations. 
 
 158. When will prejudices be removed ? National 
 prejudices accord not well with progress. To be truly 
 impartial and progressive, should we first begin by 
 denationalising ourselves ? 
 
 159. Many people admire merely an imitation of 
 others. 
 
 160. Passion makes a burlesque of the features. 
 
 161. The end of time is the birthday of Eternity. 
 
 .162. All literature is but a word a thought a 
 maxim amplified. 
 
 163. There are many great people in the world if we 
 value what they say of themselves. 
 
 164. Some say even slavery has its joys. 
 
 165. Grasp not always at the highest place, for, if you 
 should happen to fail, your disappointment will be the 
 more severe. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 15 
 
 160. Cringe before no man. 
 
 167. Too much bashfulness is as bad as too much 
 boldness. 
 
 168. Thoughts are as the sands of the seashore 
 infinite. 
 
 169. Discipline should be acquired. 
 
 170. Men naturally wish to govern. 
 
 171. What dangers people encounter for fame ! 
 
 172. Some disorders are not positive injuries. 
 
 173. Let there be order and system in most things. 
 
 174. To prefer certain things there must be com- 
 parison. 
 
 175. Politeness is not essential at all times. 
 
 176. There is life (and death) in the grape. 
 
 177. The tongue hew often an enemy. 
 
 178. Self-love (in excess) is an enemy. 
 
 179. Call one thought, and another will follow. 
 
 180. Frugality is not always to be commended, nor 
 liberality to be condemned. 
 
 181. Abundance is often a dangerous good. 
 
 182. Empires will fall dynasties fade away ; but 
 the mind cf man will survive the destruction of all 
 inanimate matter its destiny is eternal. 
 
 183. Fortune's favours are too often like thunder- 
 bolts which kill. 
 
 184. War is oftentimes the best monitor. 
 
 185. Be active ; let not thy life run smoothly as the 
 stream. 
 
 186. There is no praise for being a proficient in some 
 things. 
 
 187. Laws change as the seasons. 
 188. Life is not always to be imitated on the stage. 
 189. A hard grasp of the hand is not always the 
 proof of a friend. 
 
 190. To speak too much of a good action lessens its 
 value. 
 
 191. It is the fee that draws the doctor. 
 192. I do not wish it to be understood as a reflection 
 upon the many members of a worthy profession, when 
 I give expression to the remark that lawyers are men 
 who will swear black is white if they are paid for it. 
 193. To shake the world and raise a feather. 
 
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 194. Some people make use of all their eyes. 
 
 195. There are grave mysteries in science. 
 
 196. Expensive lawsuits are doubtful benefits. 
 
 197. Some arts may be learned from savages. 
 
 198. Do not interrupt the thread of a profitable 
 discourse. 
 
 199. Last to be served though first in importance. 
 
 200. Exercise the system; the loom, if suffered to 
 rest, requires oiling. 
 
 201. Be not ashamed to own thy ignorance of some 
 things. 
 
 202. Curses seldom convince. 
 
 203. Ridicule is a weak form of satire. 
 
 204. " The right is a powerful weapon." 
 
 205. The brave should not have a private pique 
 against each other. 
 
 206. Wars of pen and ink often lead to wars of 
 cannon and bayonets. 
 
 207. The press is a powerful censor (except in 
 despotisms). 
 
 208. Beading useless books is like sowing bad seed 
 your trouble does not reward you. 
 
 209. Pleasure is oftentimes a trouble, and work a 
 pleasure. 
 
 210. Pleasures mostly begin well and end ill. 
 
 211 Think of the absent. 
 
 212. Though perhaps a worse fortune in the end a 
 better in the present. 
 
 218. Eloquence can save souls. 
 
 214. Many books little reading. 
 
 215. There are faces and bodies, and of all fornio, 
 nearly. 
 
 216. Of all "dears" (so say the philosophers) wisdom is 
 the dearest. 
 
 217. Wisdom is mostly the fruit of experience. 
 
 218. How many are there who seem to live well yet, 
 if we knew them well, live ill ? 
 
 219. The pen how often an antagonist ! 
 
 220. A wife is the dearest, and often the dearest. 
 
 221. A judge must not have sympathy. 
 
 222. How often does conversation intoxicate more 
 than drink! 
 

 BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 17 
 
 223. Wisdom is great if there is little wisdom. 
 
 224. One's own wisdom is dearest. 
 
 225. You can be kind to your horse, although you 
 curb him. 
 
 226. Doing, and not to talk. 
 
 227. The ignorant and simple are sometimes our 
 tutors. 
 
 228. How extravagant we are sometimes when we 
 want and have no money ! 
 
 229. Bad from best is an easy transition. 
 
 230. Many people write to us about what they have 
 not to tell us. 
 
 231. It is the mind, and not the body, which contains 
 enmity. 
 
 232. Every art has its stepping-stones. 
 
 233. Last in the campaign, and first in the fame. 
 
 234. Man often finds it his interest to buy a 
 neighbour's good will. 
 235. To take wood from us and give us the shavings. 
 
 236. Many may prefer, but may not choose. 
 
 237. We have often to be thankful for hopes frustrated. 
 
 238. Know who a man is before you let him smell 
 your purse. 
 
 239. Do not affect the company of pot-house friends ; 
 and of strangers there beware ! 
 
 240. To guard against ill is better than to be able 
 to foretell it. 
 
 241. Fame is of little account without profit. 
 
 242. 'Tis merry in a crowd sometimes. 
 
 243. No comfort where there are many. 
 
 244. Every thought is a book. 
 
 245. The praise of the uncharitable is sometimes as 
 foolish as their censure. 
 
 246. When full of wine we ask for water. 
 
 247. It is not the number of books which constitute 
 the literature of a country. 
 
 248. How often are observations misapplied ! 
 
 249. Follies will never have an end. 
 
 250. Letters are sometimes capital things if they are 
 answered. 
 
 251. Trade with thoughts as with gold. 
 
 252. The world is ruled by thought. 
 
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 253. To look into ourselves this is one art. 
 254. Guesses are oftentimes the surest answer. 
 
 255. Who can harp on the strings of a well-guarded 
 heart ? 
 
 256. The successful man seldom blames the ingratitude 
 of mankind. 
 
 257. There are great trials in the air. 
 
 258. He swallows a tree at every gulp. 
 
 259. Truth is centred in the soul; who can outroot 
 from the conscience a falsehood ? 
 
 2QQ. A man has the power to abstain from any evil 
 the work of man (as wine, etc.) 
 
 261. Be not too methodical, and do not affect the 
 martinet. 
 
 262. The business of amusement it encircles the 
 world. 
 
 263. Guard against excess in eating, as in drinking. 
 
 264. The way of the world is "jolly," says the 
 inebriate ; and " sad," says the melancholy man. 
 
 265. KING AND SAGE King " How old art thou ?" 
 Sage " Both young and old, sire." King " How 
 sayest thou ?" Sage " I am young in goodness, and old 
 in sin." 
 
 266. The soul often laughs at the sallies of the mind. 
 
 267. When your credit is lost your honour is 
 imperilled. 
 
 268. Seek to know before you teach. 
 
 269. We may often study in a crowd, while unable to 
 
 udy in our closet. 
 
 270. A loud voice is not always the index of a true 
 courage. 
 
 271. Laughter is often the cause of tears, and tears 
 laughter. 
 
 272. Humility and pride are often allied. 
 
 273. What is owned by none is owned by all. 
 
 274. Be of good cheer when you see friends dear. 
 
 275. Indifference often degenerates into satiety. 
 
 276. Let liberty reside in your mansion. 
 
 277. From the meeting of friends often spring the 
 encounter of foes. 
 
 278. Never be abashed when you meet with a rebuff; 
 it tests one's philosophy. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 19 
 
 279. LINES FOR A DIAL : 
 
 It's easy to count the hours as they flee ; 
 Think well of lost time when looking at me. 
 
 80. Advice that is sought for by your enemy must be 
 d advice indeed. 
 
 281. A rich man's tears would water a poor man's 
 garden. 
 
 282. Seek knowledge from the purest source. 
 
 283. Many things good in themselves appear evil 
 when used unwisely. 
 
 284. The first in appearance is not always the first in 
 importance. 
 
 285. Walk not against the will. 
 
 286. He is wise who can advise himself. 
 
 287. The wisest man is he who does not require 
 advice. 
 
 288. From the different views of wisdom spring our 
 greatest errors. 
 
 289. Vanity is the flatterer of the soul. 
 
 290. Self-interest is often stronger than blood. 
 
 291. The world often excuses the want of virtue in 
 
 ie who is possessed of wealth. 
 
 292. A rich man is seldom in want of an auditor. 
 
 293. That, which is unknown is (nearly) lost. 
 
 294. Wine is the bond of friendship (and enmity). 
 
 295. The soul is (often) born a twin. 
 
 296. Value is comparison. 
 
 297. Look/rom the future. 
 
 298. The mind is the duplicate of the soul. 
 
 299. To hear some people talk you would think they 
 had bodies only body-men, who never think. 
 
 300. Could we unfold futurity we might behold War 
 on Peace ; start at shadows ; and find that all shadows 
 would be substance. 
 
 301. Written thoughts, are the fancies embodied. 
 
 302. Keep from debt, and peace expect. 
 
 303. The will is the most dangerous rival of the soul, 
 and its strongest enemy. 
 
 304. Many important views escape the eye of he that 
 is on the mountain top, which is easily discernible to the 
 traveller on the plain. 
 
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 305. Peace of mind arises from the remembrance of 
 few evil, and many good, acts (performed). 
 
 306. Resolve well, and try to attain your good resolves 
 if you would be happy. 
 
 307. Live well now, that thou may live well hence. 
 
 308. Vice is a thorn to the soul. 
 
 309. Walk where virtue does not lean. 
 
 310. Destiny pursues as the hare runs. 
 
 311. Judge in good time now that time may not 
 rashly judge hence. 
 
 312. Be wise before the storm. 
 
 313. To rule thyself is better than to rule others. 
 
 314. Pride is the child of honour. 
 
 315. Be wise when both paths lie open not when 
 one is closed. 
 
 316. To govern thyself is to overcome most evils. 
 
 817. We cannot combat ills unknown. 
 
 318. Wisdom is confined to no set speech or men. 
 
 319. Wine draws more " friends " than wisdom. 
 
 320. Lend to thyself first. 
 
 321. Fair promises are seeds unsown. 
 
 322. Fire is the heart of Nature. 
 
 323. The easiest trade is that which is hardest learned. 
 
 324. For gold, Governments sometimes offer a 
 premium for vice. 
 
 325. Folly is distorted wisdom or wisdom in a cloud. 
 
 326. Tyranny in some measure seems to be a necessity 
 to all Governments. 
 
 327. To the strong mind Fortune retires (or smiles). 
 
 328. Spend less on pleasure the more you earn. 
 
 329. The applause of the public is (like) golden 
 sands. 
 
 330. The frame is often more valuable than the 
 picture the case than the jewel. 
 
 331. He who pays well is followed more than he who 
 says well. 
 
 332. Swim in the ditch if you can't in the sea. 
 
 333,. Not he that looks ill, but he that does it. 
 
 334. Confusion often brings forth light. 
 
 335. Dreams make all men authors. 
 
 336. The same action does not always lead to the 
 same result. 
 
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 337. That which is impossible were it possible 
 would not serve us. 
 
 338. That we have is not so sweet as that we would 
 have. 
 
 339. Many give that they may get. 
 
 340. Some fame is easily acquired. 
 
 341. Wait in pain, rather than decide in haste. 
 
 342. There is some resemblance in men's thoughts 
 and features. 
 
 343. Nature ever changes never rests. 
 
 344. A hovel in a storm is better than a house beyond. 
 
 345. Guilt is oftentimes the strongest witness against 
 itself. 
 
 346. Wisdom is the helper of mind and body. 
 
 347, Lost time is that which is badly spent. 
 
 348. Act well in the present the future will act well 
 for thee. 
 
 349. No immorality on chance (of things). 
 
 350. Death aims only once, but never misses fire. 
 
 351. One day of good fortune is better than ten 'of 
 hope. 
 
 352. What wills often effects. 
 
 353. Like gold in the hands of a savage are the 
 sayings of wisdom in the mouth of a fool ; wisdom 
 valuable in itself, but of no value to the possessor. 
 
 354. False the dogma false the doctor. 
 
 355. Our friends frequently serve us more by their 
 wishes than by their deeds. 
 
 356. Empty the heart of enmity, and you will store it 
 with virtue. 
 
 357. Arguments change not the fact. 
 
 358. The intention condemns sometimes before the 
 act. 
 
 359. We proceed in life by station(s) ; we succeed by 
 station. 
 
 360. Duty may be performed by all. 
 
 361. To form the excuse before the committal. 
 
 362. Great in evils little in virtues. 
 
 363. The greater the dross, the greater often the 
 brilliancy. 
 
 364. We repeat the advice on taking it. 
 
 365. Necessity offers more than gratitude can fulfil. 
 
22 MAXIMS. 
 
 866. We give example by taking it. 
 
 367. Terror flies from the frequent contemplation of 
 it. 
 
 368. Many are rejected from the ignorance of those 
 parts of learning (or art) which are unnecessary. 
 
 369. Without prudence, without sense. 
 
 370. Distrust that state of life which is most pros- 
 perous. 
 
 371. We often learn by unlearning. 
 -872. What we know is built on what we do not know. 
 
 373. The greater the palace, the narrower the principles. 
 
 374. Patience is stronger than force. 
 
 875. Wisdom is often counted folly by the unwise. 
 
 376. The very certainty of gain does not always draw 
 followers. 
 
 377. The reception we obtain is not always what we 
 expect. 
 
 378. Not the sword, but the arm that wields it. 
 
 379. The fate of men is often decided by one oftener 
 by many. 
 
 380. There is small gain in that (which if we lose) we 
 regret not. 
 
 381. Time lengthens with the wise. 
 
 382. The same scene does not always give rise to the 
 same feeling. 
 
 883. Fortune favours thought. 
 
 384. Wisdom is oftentimes at variance with "honour.'* 
 
 385. Many are up early and late yet never wise. 
 
 386. The foes that are unseen are often stronger than 
 those that are seen. 
 
 387. A good guard is better than a bad strike. 
 
 388. Time and place change the value. 
 
 389. A disagreeable neighbour is sometimes missed. 
 
 390. It is a good temper that can stand the attack of 
 a child. 
 
 391. The cause of joy does not always cause it. 
 ji^-392. Hope is a day the end of which we may never see. 
 
 393. Soiled honour is often a net to catch riches. 
 
 394. It is necessary only to agree with some to make 
 them abashed. 
 
 395. What we laugh at now we are often obliged to 
 follow. 
 
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 396. Rule hope. 
 
 397. Self-defence is Nature's wisdom. 
 
 398. We often deny ourselves for fashion's sake. 
 
 399. National feelings are mostly illiberal (to other 
 nations). 
 
 400. No remedy without the proof. 
 
 401. Evils which we think ended are often displaced 
 by worse ones. 
 
 402. He who gives a good example through life may 
 live another life by his example ; for a useless life is 
 less than a life. 
 
 403. How often does a study tyrannise over us ! yet 
 we delight in our servitude. Fame lightens labour. 
 
 404. Some hands always write gold ; a writer often 
 tires his reader, yet spins for himself gold. 
 
 405. Ideas come from an endless vista. 
 
 406. Fancy often leads to acts great and terrible. 
 
 407. The same is not always the same. 
 
 408; A speech not remembered is but a breath. 
 
 409. Some fame is easy gotten and forgotten. 
 
 410. A virtuous and hardy youth is a glorious scene 
 of life long to be remembered. 
 
 411. He who is not virtuous ought not to have arrived 
 at any age. 
 
 412. We love that little (which, \vhen we lose) we 
 love not. 
 
 413. The will is not always with the body. 
 
 414. Peace is the bright star of the world ; yet must 
 not war be universally condemned. A righteous war is 
 a legacy from heaven oftentimes the handmaid of a 
 nation's liberty. 
 
 415. Retreat but to breathe stronger. 
 
 416. Memory is the greatest traveller. 
 
 417. Flattery is often involuntary. 
 
 418. The sword that rests rusts. 
 
 419. Time is a strict monitor. 
 
 420. Think your breathings may be numbered. 
 
 421. Time renews sometimes. 
 
 422. As a rod so life may be divided. 
 
 423. Trivial things have often been the springs of 
 great actions. 
 
 424. The first beginnings are generally crude. 
 
24 MAXIMS. 
 
 425. Although you have the wood you are not always 
 sure of the fire. 
 
 426. The longer the lesser of labour. 
 
 427. Thought is mightier than action. 
 
 428. Our actions often make the cause ; and there is 
 a cause for actions. 
 
 429. Anger is often comparison. 
 
 430. True politeness is a great servitor. 
 
 431. The flower fades that is not looked upon. 
 
 432. Fancy often leads to fact. 
 
 433. Fancy and fact often change places. 
 
 434. The history of the book is oftentimes the greatest 
 history. 
 
 435. The reason we so frequently travel over the same 
 road is that there is no other whereby we may travel. 
 
 436. Printing is the breath of literature. 
 
 437. Wisdom takes most when it requires least. 
 
 438. Let thyself be eclipsed if by doing so thy 
 follies are. 
 
 439. Time begets more than fiction can create. 
 
 440. Useless is that the fruit whereof lasts not. 
 
 441. Unseen, often huge seen, little. 
 
 442. More would you know, and know not one ? 
 
 443. Eeason is the pathway of virtue. 
 
 444. We may often learn from our own works. 
 
 445. The thought of virtue is a sword at evil. 
 
 446. Abjure the wrong, adjudge the evil. 
 
 447. Mistrust thyself when the road is smoothest. 
 
 448. Friendship's eye is (often) blind. 
 
 449. Bear thy greatest fortune as if thou deserved it not. 
 
 450. A true friend has double cares. 
 
 451. That which hurts the mind and body hurts the 
 soul. 
 
 452. A good name is a preventive to evil. 
 
 453. Liberty is often a book unclosed, and made as 
 books are for us. 
 
 454. Wisdom is a treasure, the key whereof is never 
 lost. 
 
 455. Scorn not wisdom ; for it will be without thee. 
 
 456. Time is often a magnet to the unwise. 
 
 457. Justice is often the wind that blows the criminal 
 to his punishment. 
 
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 458. Firm is often the resolve, and infirm the action. 
 
 459. There is frequently a poison in fortune's gifts. 
 
 460. The body should be gauged by temperance, as 
 the soul by virtue. 
 
 461. The remembrance of good deeds should be an 
 antidote to evil ones. 
 
 462. We envy him not whose fate we may not envy. 
 
 463. A disguise may often prove a hard trial to a true 
 friend. 
 
 464. The strictest economy will waste at times. 
 
 465. Not the effect, but the intention often causes the 
 evil. 
 
 466. Define strictly the line between thy wishes 
 and necessities. 
 
 467. Wisdom's door is ever open. 
 
 468. To do things well should be the great aim of life. 
 
 469. Fear flies through fancy's door. 
 
 470. Admiration often subdues the soul to chance. 
 
 471. Truth often spoils the dinner. 
 
 472. Care flies on money's wings. 
 
 473. We are not adjudged by one human judgment. 
 
 474. Meditation is the longest book. 
 
 475. Music is one of the allowed pleasures of the soul. 
 
 476. The matter, not the words, forms the length or 
 value of a book. 
 
 477. A spendthrift's purse is like a tree that never 
 blossoms. 
 
 478. Eesemblance is a bond of favour. 
 
 479. Truth is the foundation of justice and honour. 
 
 480. Make it well for thee to live, and thou shalt live 
 well. 
 
 481. Fortune acts without conditions. 
 
 482. One cause of misery is the inability to change. 
 
 483. The manner is often an index to the heart. 
 
 484. Virtue is a standard which is upheld by many 
 strong arms. 
 
 485. Accident is a great monitor. 
 
 486. That which we are in want of ourselves is often 
 blamed when it is in the possession of others. 
 
 487. The heart is often elated when the face is calm. 
 
 488. Dress is like a letter, which is sometimes well 
 and sometimes ill received. 
 
26 MAXIMS. 
 
 489. We do not state the same to everyone. 
 
 490. It is difficult to walk through brambles without 
 some of them sticking to you. 
 
 491. Joy hath many features. 
 
 492. You have not lost all when you have life. 
 
 493. You are not always safe even when far from 
 the precipice. 
 
 494. Our feelings often colour the truth. 
 
 495. Accident often lurks in the simplest movement, 
 
 496. Nature has no remorse. 
 
 497. Many obstacles are placed when our interest sets 
 them. 
 
 498. The slightest sign of evil is frequently the 
 strongest confirmation of it. 
 
 499. Hope is a powerful weapon. 
 
 500. Self-interest is a chain upon our actions. 
 
 501. The course of justice often prevents it. 
 
 502. The law's course frequently prevents a just 
 action. 
 
 503. The uncertainty of justice often prevents it. 
 
 504. The just often fear to be served rightly. 
 
 505. No fruit without the root. 
 
 506. Want is both parent and child of war. 
 
 507. Where evil is, there doth evil emanate. 
 
 508. Nothing is by itself; the mirror reflects several 
 when it reflects one. 
 
 509. When anger walks it is strongest ; let it rest and 
 it gets weak. 
 
 510. Consider life a debt which must be discharged. 
 
 511. Fear fathoms many things. 
 
 512. It is not good to improve the danger. 
 
 513. One key opens many sciences. 
 - 514. Time is the creditor of pleasure. 
 
 515. We (often) please others while we pain ourselves. 
 
 516. We often welcome evils, yet turn from good 
 tidings. 
 
 517. Wisdom rewards often by taking from us. 
 
 518. Thou hast been formed for a cause let that 
 cause form thee. 
 
 519. Words which enlighten some darken others. 
 
 520. The result is equal to the cause. 
 
 521. Many retreat who have the best vantage ground. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 27 
 
 522. That which makes thee miserable oft serves thee 
 best. 
 
 523. The clearest moral is dark through a strange 
 tongue or uncouth delivery. 
 
 524. That which furthers the country (or empire). 
 
 525. Any state of life contents if we know no other. 
 
 526. Be careful in those things which will be 
 known. 
 
 527. Language is the key of knowledge. 
 
 528. Self-interest is a strict monitor. 
 
 529. The eye is the best key. 
 
 530. "Wisdom is a lesson which is never too well 
 known. 
 
 531. Let prudence clothe thy conduct. 
 
 532. Detraction is the heir of jealousy. 
 
 533. Our conduct, like our clothes, often requires 
 mending. 
 
 534. Prudence hath two elements. 
 
 535. The best friend does not always receive the best 
 welcome. 
 
 536. The resemblance to evil is often the cause of it. 
 
 537. When wisdom leaves the house, folly enters it. 
 
 538. Feeling is the oil of life. 
 
 539. To be pleased with good actions is the unction of 
 life. 
 
 540. Fear hath a numerous progeny. 
 
 541. Beauty is but a lease from nature. 
 
 542. Despise not that which may make thee despised. 
 
 543. Do not scold with a woman who is a linguist; 
 for, though you may withstand her French, her German 
 may annihilate you. 
 
 544. Read, admire, and tire yourself; how often is 
 it called pleasure ? 
 
 545. A hungry cat will not acknowledge the friend- 
 ship of a rat. 
 
 546. Knowledge is very often not wisdom. 
 
 547. He speaks as a sage and acts as a fool. 
 
 548. There is hardly anything more to be condemned 
 in generals than senseless valour. 
 
 549. Your appetite call not your constitution. 
 
 550. Tastes alter with years. 
 
 551. To know one thing we must forget another. 
 
28 MAXIMS. 
 
 552. We all (if we have a mind to) can draw from 
 wisdom as from a fountain. 
 
 553. To strive and to become unknown. 
 
 554. Deep thoughts are deep, when the surface 
 ruffles. 
 
 555. Life is a continual march towards the grave. 
 
 556. There is (often) great substance in air. 
 
 557. A just man prosperous the happiest in the 
 world. 
 
 558. In the greatest misfortune oft lies the greatest 
 hope. 
 
 559. The certainty of succeeding makes the road 
 easy. 
 
 560. It is often the interest of another that we admit 
 that which is not our interest. 
 
 561. It is a good maxim that bears the tests of all 
 weathers. 
 
 562. Never ask for what you cannot repay. 
 
 563. A Spaniard without a cigar is like a steamer 
 without a funnel. 
 
 564. Genius is books to-morrow. 
 
 565. Literature triumphs when liberty is on the wane. 
 
 566. Look right and left then go ahead. 
 
 567. Kotten is that bond which depends but on a 
 name. 
 
 568. Look over a dirty face where there's a clean 
 hand. 
 
 569. Live one day well, and let that day be thy year. 
 
 570. Honour is great, but truth is greater. 
 
 571. A meerschaum pipe, some lager beer, and good 
 sauer 'kraut are three things which a German can't do 
 well without. 
 
 572. The phrase of sorrow doth oft the sad heart 
 make gay ; while gaiety doth oft the soul o'erpress with 
 leaden woe. 
 
 573. Often is a favour asked when none is required. 
 
 574. Design that well which is to bear the test of ages. 
 
 575. In the greatest advancement oft lurks the greatest 
 obstruction. 
 
 576. Nature hath always an after-thought. 
 
 577. The substance often flies when the shadow is 
 greater. 
 
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 578. Anxiety is the attendant of much travel. 
 
 579. Morning is the fresh page of nature. 
 
 580. A bad mouth empties the bag. 
 
 581. It is too long to wait for the proof of everything. 
 
 582. An interchange of literature is the conversation 
 of nations. 
 
 583. The sick man's wish is often the scorn of he that 
 is in good health. 
 
 584. That which obstructs hope often increases it. 
 
 585. An hour of labour sometimes gives to others years 
 of work. 
 
 586. Wishes people the world. 
 
 587. The gate of death is never at rest. 
 
 588. What is wise in Catalonia is not always wise at 
 Biscay. 
 
 589. Un hidalgo a Priego un paysano en Madrid 
 (i.e., a gentleman at Priego is only a peasant at Madrid). 
 
 590. Good nature will condone the faults of ill-taste. 
 
 591. Self-denial is the first step towards economy. 
 
 592. Consider that day as a debt which diminishes thy 
 fortune. 
 
 593. It is not always wise to add all that may be added. 
 
 594. Fancy gives a large interpretation. 
 
 595. Good manners is the food of humility. 
 
 596. Let virtue be the mantle of thy conduct. 
 
 597. It is better to deny thyself than for others to 
 deny thee. 
 
 598. When expense is necessary think well of the 
 morrow. 
 
 599. Let no " friend " be the controller of thy purse. 
 
 600. That fortune which improves not is loss. 
 
 601. Profit walks with economy. 
 
 602. Leave nothing to chance for gain. 
 
 603. Self denial will bear thy fortune. 
 
 604. Let thy firm resolves in virtue be as oaths to 
 bind you. 
 
 605. Economy in this life and virtue in all. 
 
 606. It is better to die well than live ill. 
 
 607. Many friends many losses. 
 
 608. Often are losses multiplied when known to 
 others. 
 
 609. Prejudice sees through an obscure vision or lens. 
 
30 MAXIMS. 
 
 610. What one has proved to be right, another has 
 found not to prosper with him. 
 
 611. Success is a hidden jewel, and is found but by few. 
 
 612. Thy fortune is never at the lowest when you 
 have health. 
 
 618. Our experience tells us what is labour and 
 recreation. 
 
 614. Many of our writers labour but for the production 
 of volumes " book-making." 
 
 615. All nations contribute to the great march of pro- 
 gress. Let there be charity amongst nations, as amongst 
 individuals. Let us subdue our national prejudices. 
 
 616. A constitution imperilled justifies revolution. 
 
 617. If everything were easy of attainment, merit 
 would be only a word. 
 
 618. Boldness oft stares discretion, as discretion bows 
 before success. 
 
 619. Adopt those things which pain the will (or body), 
 but improve the health. 
 
 620. Let thy work be thy penance. 
 
 621. The defenders of evil deeds deserve the same 
 punishment as the doers. 
 
 622. Where a proof may be forthcoming it is not wise 
 to scorn. He may be justly confident in those things 
 that are known but to himself. 
 
 623. Motto : Honour to the end. 
 
 624. Do not, for regard of others, be out of regard for 
 thyself. 
 
 625. To admire too much is to humble thyself and to 
 lessen thy self-esteem. 
 
 626. Truth, justice, and honour is the trefoil flower of 
 wisdom. 
 
 627. To ask and give advice is the cheapest bargain. 
 
 628. Defend thyself against ill-tidings. 
 
 629. A wise man's thought may when he sees it 
 next speak through volumes. 
 
 630. The principal thought of flattering " friends " is : 
 What lessens or increases thy fortune. 
 
 631. He who is prepared hath double armour. 
 
 632. War hastens fortune. 
 
 633. " Novelty " often consists in putting a new face 
 on old materials. 
 
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 634. Virtue's years are never-ending ages. 
 
 635. Memory sometimes rests on action. 
 
 636. Faith in God is a stout armour. 
 
 637. Always feel an interest in that which is stamped 
 with a great a generous nation's approval. 
 
 638. It would be well if we could be despotic over 
 our follies. 
 
 639. Often is memory half the remedy. 
 
 640. Time that is the cause of all grief appeases it 
 also. 
 
 641. The eye is the best book of thy profits (or 
 possessions). 
 
 642. Eest not overmuch, for life itself is but a pause ; 
 consider only what life is on an age (or cycle). 
 
 643. What the poor slight the rich often fear. 
 
 644. We write down our bad debts, but not our bad 
 deeds. 
 
 645. The soul rests with virtue. 
 
 646, Stay not for the proof of that which deceives. 
 
 647. Perseverance is allied to study. 
 
 648. Koutine is a mound of obstruction ; he deserves 
 praise who like a surveyor, let us say can a road clear 
 through it. 
 
 649. The most valued is always at hand. 
 
 650. The present is the food of the future. 
 
 651. Let thy firm resolves in virtue be as a deed. 
 
 652. Countless ages have produced, and will yet 
 produce, that which passes and rests not. 
 
 653. There is no virtue in poverty if it breeds discon- 
 tent (or envy). 
 
 654. Virtue is always near us if we receive it. 
 
 655. The greatest value wears a mask. 
 
 656. Death, the most certain and uncertain it solves 
 all, yet not to be solved itself. 
 
 657. Uncertainty is allied to pain. 
 
 658. Kepentance is the debt one owes to virtue. 
 
 659. Virtue hath many branches. 
 
 660. Truth is the key to all virtue. 
 
 661. Much time is spent on that which we know to 
 l>e unprofitable. 
 
 662. Profit has d deep purse. 
 
 663. Confidence in the right, even when undefended. 
 
664. Be firm (as that which hath passed) in the 
 right. 
 
 665. Time is the support of all. 
 
 666. Destiny always surrounds thee. 
 
 667. A proof is required of a friend. 
 
 668. When the highest step of fortune is reached 
 many wants are still unsatisfied. 
 
 669. Life is the servant of time. 
 
 670. He who has the conduct of a war should consider 
 the responsibility as if his life were under trial, and the 
 punishment unknown. 
 
 671. Probability strengthens caution. 
 
 672. Nearly all our life is one continual obstacle. 
 
 673. Griefs and troubles accumulate with years. 
 
 674. Our fortune is often made to feel what we feel 
 or think not of (ourselves). 
 
 675. Let recreation balance, but not over- weigh, 
 labour. 
 
 676. Happy is the man who can labour on the 
 abstract. 
 
 677. Exercise is the parent of originality. 
 
 678. From a single pause often springs a lengthened 
 work. 
 
 679. Truth and virtue aie flowers that die not. 
 
 680. Revenge and regret both meet over the grave. 
 
 681. A man may be despotic in books ; but if we 
 seem to be dogmatic at times, it is solely for the purpose 
 of condensing the matter. 
 
 682. Speculation is not opinion. I do not hold 
 myself responsible for the misapplication of any of my 
 theories. 
 
 683. Be accountable but for thy one leading idea in 
 truth, and not for any misconstructions that may be 
 brought against it. 
 
 684. War often gives subjects of history in a few 
 words (or actions). 
 
 685. War is the revenge of fortune. 
 
 686. Conditions are the stays of war. 
 ^ 687. Ambition finds its greatest support and obstruc- 
 tion in war. 
 
 688. The strong will is not to be conquered (except 
 by device). 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 33 
 
 689. Firm resolve is the armour of the soul. 
 
 690. Hope is the spur of life. 
 
 691. Profit is the target which good and bad aim at. 
 
 692. War which destroys is often the very bread of 
 existence. 
 
 693. It is the way in which we understand offence 
 that makes it. 
 
 694. The hands of patience never tire ; the work of 
 patience never wears. 
 
 695. Even a reward is not good when ill-timed. 
 
 696. A wish is a great substitute ; he loses not much 
 who loses in his wish only. 
 
 697. Mistakes have sometimes produced greater 
 actions than if there had been no " failures." 
 
 698. He who rests at times causes the most trouble 
 (or injury). 
 
 699. Consider impartially that which is allied to 
 prejudice. 
 
 700. What is good for one man in all things is good 
 for the commonwealth. 
 
 701. Friendship is on (half) -wings to fly when it 
 hesitates. 
 
 702. Luxury is the magnet of war. 
 
 703. Be thou thyself the test of thy best wisdom. 
 
 704. Life is but a prelude (or destiny) of the soul. 
 
 705. We cannot well envy that we do not understand. 
 
 706. Even patience requires rest. 
 
 707. Years increase in value to him who hath made 
 good use of them. 
 
 708. Virtue seeks the greatest distance from vice. 
 
 709. Fury sometimes is the first movement towards 
 safety. 
 
 710. War is the greatest spendthrift and gainer. 
 
 711. War requires a long purse. 
 
 712. Assertion has double features ; one often wears 
 a strong mask. 
 
 713. Economy lives under fortune's smile. 
 
 714. Let ill-tidings work sometimes untold. 
 
 715. Gain is the test of fortune. 
 
 716. Hasten the result if well considered. 
 
 717. Nature rests on change. 
 
 718. Truth wears an unchanging countenance. 
 
84 MAXIMS. 
 
 719. Industry sorts well with order, 
 
 720. Live in content die in content. 
 
 !- I. Law out of its place is a flower which changes its 
 texture. 
 
 m. Waste is often cherished. 
 
 728. Speech is a mirror of the man. 
 -Trust little to mere fortune. 
 
 726. Pity flies far from fortune. 
 
 726. A bad habit acquired is a virtue lost. 
 
 727, Hugged, at times, is the path of strict economy. 
 
 728. Envy often branches from ill-success. 
 
 729. Duty converts danger to pleasure. 
 
 780. When wisdom beckons, let thy senses be in 
 excess. 
 
 781. Labour is the root of riches. 
 
 -!. He is strongest in war who can rest longest with 
 .-.::, :v. 
 
 788. A good intention is a seal of virtue. 
 
 TIM. Happy those good resolves, \\hen certain. 
 
 785. Virtue is the chain that binds all wisdom. 
 
 786. -Mark thy life's stages. 
 
 787. Be true to the end of thy road. 
 
 788, And this is requisite-^-to obey the soul. 
 
 789. Let not thy constitution labour for thy appetite. 
 
 740. Uncertain where it falls is the arrow from for- 
 tune's shaft . 
 
 741. Fortune differs in this that the same pains 
 taken do not give the same result. 
 
 742, Fit time is the support of success, 
 
 748, Weigh well thy words when thou art to be 
 judged by them. 
 
 744. A good maxim is the frame whereon wisdom's 
 thought is enshrined. 
 
 745. Wisdom is the first model and best exercise for 
 thought. 
 
 746. First to know virtuous life ; next, the proper use 
 of life. 
 
 747. A virtuous thought is a comfort to the soul in 
 affliction. 
 
 748. Obey not dictates that offend the soul. 
 
 749. Proof of good is the wish of virtue. 
 
 750. Certainty is the wing of life. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 35 
 
 ~:>1. The use is the text-question of theory. 
 
 T.vj. The sun dims through fancy's grief. 
 
 768, Seek even danger in quest of right. 
 
 754. Commend the good intention, even if unsuc- 
 
 sful. 
 
 755. Wisdom always speaks from a good vantage- 
 ground. 
 
 756. Wisdom we can approach and partake of, but 
 not exhaust. 
 
 757. The best imagination is that which resembles 
 foot. 
 
 758. Wisdom's scorn oft blesses. 
 
 759. Never let thy thought be in danger. 
 
 760. Wisdom is the eternal principle the motive 
 power of creation the greatest gift from God to man. 
 
 761. Ask of virtue ; when it fails thee, it is a silent but 
 sure monitor. 
 
 762. Seek goodness on its own station. 
 
 763.- Many articles may be read in reason ; reason 
 and the cause justify unusual research. 
 
 764. Nothing so poor but brings riches to the store 
 of thought. 
 
 765. Jewels require a large ground for growth. 
 
 766. Cleanliness is a simple remedy yet the first. 
 
 767. Wisdom is the universe of thought. 
 
 768. Scorn has generally a dimmed sight. 
 
 769. Curiosity is frequently a step towards favour. 
 
 770. Evil is the canker of life. 
 
 771. Prosperity, instead of increasing, sometimes sub- 
 dues our desires. 
 
 772. Teach not thy talents so as to be too closely 
 followed or rivalled; the last seal obliterates the 
 impression of the former. 
 
 773. Give to accident the largest interpretation. 
 
 774. Let proportion of desires be thy rule in all 
 expectations. 
 
 775. Nature's maxims own no voice. 
 
 776. A good maxim carries jewels in its sentence as 
 in a diadem. 
 
 777. Life is an uncertain flower oft by the tempest 
 o'erthrown. 
 
 ^78. Practical wisdom is an equable possession. 
 
36 MAXIMS. 
 
 779. The result is the key often of our hopes the 
 goal of hope at death. 
 
 780. Death is the key of hope. 
 
 781. Books, like bricks, depend upon each other for 
 support. 
 
 782. Make reason thy habit. 
 
 783. Keason is but half a virtue if misplaced by evil. 
 
 784. Habit hath many reasons, but is a bad listener. 
 
 785. -If reason were wholly our rule, the ills of life 
 would seldom harm us. 
 
 786. Let honour be thy still unchanging habit. 
 
 787. In dreams no man wears a mask. 
 
 788. An ill word is oftentimes a brand of enmity. 
 
 789. A plain board cleans best. 
 
 790. Reason sorts well with industry. 
 
 791. Time is a never- failing employer. 
 
 792. Revolution is often a sword of necessity, and 
 creating the necessity of it. 
 
 793. The result is frequently a victorious answer to 
 folly and envy. 
 
 794. Truth frequently controls our hopes. 
 
 795. Acknowledge no shame when right is thy portion. 
 
 796. Adopt that judgment which wisdom seals. 
 
 797 It is too much always to be responsible for other's 
 failures. 
 
 798. We do not blush with a messenger. 
 
 799. The stomach of the intemperate is at continual 
 war. 
 
 800. Tne features are oft silent words. 
 
 801. Shall wisdom cease because it incurs a frown ? 
 
 802. A frown is sometimes both an approval and con- 
 tradiction. 
 
 803. Vanity is a searcher. 
 
 804. Nobility of conduct, not of caste. 
 
 805. Truth hath a strong memory. 
 
 806. Success is a magnet that draws many followers. 
 
 807. Labour (or exercise) is the medicine of nature. 
 
 808. Destiny resides with, and follows, change. 
 
 809. Armour is the greatest mask. 
 
 810. Wisdom wears a sober guise. 
 
 811. Lessen thy wants ; you cannot be too poor in 
 evil. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 37 
 
 812. An unsuccessful past heightens the present 
 favour. 
 
 813. Let there be an object for thy actions ; time is 
 never too much worn. 
 
 . 814. The lease of time (till it is no more) is always 
 open. 
 
 815. Bernember that the mind receives little at one 
 time. 
 
 816. Innocence tinctures all things with brightest 
 hues. 
 
 817. Simplicity is the frame of nature. 
 
 818. The vain man is like a painter who continually 
 draws but his own picture. 
 
 819. The ambitious man is not content with his 
 own approval ; yet are there many laudable ambitions 
 wisdom and progress sanction. 
 
 820. Sloth is frequently the child of honour and of 
 despair. 
 
 821. Metaphor is the topmost branch of passion's tree. 
 
 822. A good author will draw nourishment from that 
 which would escape the notice of another in the desert. 
 
 823. Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul. 
 
 824. Think of the labour that is lost, and the small 
 pain that lasts. 
 
 825. To weigh most against time is often an exami- 
 nation of capacity. 
 
 826. Value to wear, but not to wear the value. Do 
 not polish so that it will wear the worth (or value). 
 
 827. The past is a towering mansion. 
 
 828. Let thy model bear thy best principles. 
 
 829. Literature has its seasons of youth and age. 
 
 830. Hard to know an ill ; evil sometimes requires 
 labour. 
 
 831. Labour is lost when the result is evil. 
 
 832. No care is there greater than to have " no care." 
 
 833. The greatest precaution sometimes causes evils. 
 
 834. Life is a flower which but blooms when it dies. 
 
 835. Silence is sometimes the mask of flattery. 
 
 836. Humour is sometims an apology for ill-success. 
 
 837. Humour, when justifying evil, is a pain. 
 
 838. In anger all our passions clash by turns. 
 
 839. Nature wars in the elements. 
 
38 MAXIMS. 
 
 840. Evil is never a friend. 
 
 841. Survey thy conduct, and let self-denial be a 
 visitor. 
 
 842. That which encourages true self-denial is no 
 flatterer. 
 
 843. Our judgment is the rule by which most things 
 are levelled. 
 
 844. Truth is both arms and armour. 
 
 845. Wisdom and time are ever patent. 
 
 846. When virtue and wisdom make a compact 
 friendship seals it. 
 
 847. Perfection is an undiscovered jewel. 
 
 848. Glory is the past. Wants increase with great- 
 ness ; you have not that until you guard. 
 
 849. Nature hath an angry tooth. 
 
 850. Small gains pave the way for larger ones. 
 
 851. Number lessens number. 
 
 852. Mark well if thou would wish not to be marked. 
 
 853. Destiny is the sword that spares not. 
 
 854. Great is he who can contemn greatness. 
 
 855. Levity is the daughter of scorn. 
 
 856. Scoffing owns no judgment. 
 
 857. Impatience is a severe taskmaster. 
 
 858. The truest worth is that which is most lasting. 
 
 859. The words of evil are at variance with worth. 
 
 860. Design is the parent of art. 
 
 861. Purity is the diamond of the soul. 
 
 862. Scorn is sometimes the beacon to much labour. 
 
 863. Happy is he whose desires are limited. 
 
 864. It is the mind and the feelings that define 
 labour and amusement. 
 
 865. Amusement to some gives labour to others. 
 
 866. Favour exists on favour. 
 
 867. Many are the author's friends we have un- 
 known. 
 
 868. A card is sometimes a good interpreter. 
 
 869. Our best introduction repels often at first. 
 
 870. Caution reads in the book of advice. 
 
 871. The pen hath an endless progeny. 
 
 872. Good nature is the flower of the heart. 
 
 873. A good maxim is oft our protection against the 
 tempest of despair. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 39 
 
 874. Poor is that maxim which cannot withstand a 
 frown. 
 
 875. In a short maxim often is there an endless 
 lecture. 
 
 876. Improvisation is the key to many words. 
 
 877. The severest laws are generally those which we 
 make against ourselves. 
 
 878. It is hard to carry even the proofs of all with us. 
 
 879. The body is the test of most wisdom. 
 
 880. The goal of hope is never reached; it is not 
 possible to want a want. 
 
 881. The soul and body require resting-places. 
 
 882. What is not seen or used hath no use. 
 
 883. There is a maxim (whether known or not) for 
 every action. 
 
 884. A solution is necessary to most difficulties. 
 
 885. The origin of things hath many colours. 
 
 886. There is a plot in every life. 
 
 887. Events (sometimes unseen) work for us. 
 
 888. Often does fortune (and not ourselves) flatter us. 
 
 889. Caution is a poor friend to accident. 
 
 890. We cannot appease the anger of Nature but by 
 submission. 
 
 891. Virtue wears well in any garb. 
 
 892. Wealth is often a necessity and beacon to war. 
 
 893. When reason's voice is heard let thy tablets be 
 employed. 
 
 894. The mind has also its tablets ; the feelings are 
 the tablets of the mind. 
 
 895. Give to every due thought wisdom's support. 
 
 896. Practice is the seal of theory. 
 
 897. Theory is the mind of science. 
 
 898. Fair is the resolve that stands on unsullied 
 ground. 
 
 899. The road to true wisdom has seldom been 
 spanned by mortals. 
 
 900. Wisdom is the last and only true test. 
 
 901. Every game rests on change. 
 
 902. There is a desert of time as well as of land. 
 
 903. A thought which owns not wisdom is ill. 
 
 904. There is often most wrath beneath the placid. 
 Ocean smiles at the ill it causes. 
 
40 MAXIMS. 
 
 905. Prudence is the best case when the jewel of for- 
 tune is set. 
 
 906. Money hath good features. 
 
 907. The grave where destruction rests. 
 
 908. Fear often flies from prosperity, but is necessary 
 to it. 
 
 909. Wisdom is ever fresh ; other things grow stale, 
 but this is the evergreen flower of nature. 
 
 910. Life is still the same unchanging phase, which 
 o'ermasks all. 
 
 911. Still let the pupil learn, though learned in all. 
 
 912. Tis well to welcome when your loss is naught. 
 
 913. Mark wisdom well, and everlasting glory shall 
 acknowledge her teachings just. 
 
 914. Constancy is the seal of friendship. 
 
 915. Time makes much, but is never made. 
 
 916. Evil is the contagion of life. 
 
 917. Feeling often wears a mask. 
 
 918. Fame is oftentimes the canker of wisdom ; still 
 is there a just, philanthropic ambition which must not be 
 condemned. 
 
 919. Glory is the heart and soul of an army. 
 
 920. Prosperity is the seal of boldness. 
 
 921. Success is the best jewel. 
 
 922. Success is an easy road (when gained). 
 
 923. Dishonesty is no medicine. 
 
 924. He deserves wealth who grieves not when it is 
 lessened. 
 
 925. Pride seldom reasons. 
 
 926. Just expense is a necessity of life. 
 
 927. We are sometimes even humbled in conferring a* 
 favour. 
 
 928. Let the injury a neighbour is capable of doing be 
 a guard against too much favour. 
 
 929. True contentment owns a modest mansion. 
 
 930. Divison is the alloy of nations. 
 
 931. Poverty is a garment which may be made to fit 
 all. 
 
 932. The favour of welcome varies. 
 
 933. Wisdom (when can her praises be exhausted ?) is 
 ever a willing lender, and exacts no interest. 
 
 934. Caution, at times, is the best bravery. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 41 
 
 935. Memory is a bad book-keeper. 
 
 936. Vice is the magnet of the wicked. 
 
 937. He who gives most knowledge answers less. 
 
 938. Futurity has no pedigree. 
 
 939. Time rests on time. 
 
 940. Silence often has the strongest voice. 
 
 941. Fortune is often built on steps. 
 
 942. It is not wise to blame that which is inevitable. 
 
 943. That coat is ill-made which will fit no one. 
 
 944. The pen is a great traveller. 
 
 945. Money makes the smoothest plane. 
 
 946. If you obtain another's possession, you will not 
 always obtain his fortune. 
 
 947. Wisdom is true feeling and thought. 
 
 948. Those who bring sticks to the fire ought to 
 have a property in it. 
 
 949. Literature owns a large treasury. 
 
 950. He that has no interest lessens his fortune. 
 
 951. Eeason is the essence of nature. 
 
 952. Thought is necessary as health; do what you 
 can, you must think. 
 
 953. Dreams produce no results both their causes 
 are despotic. 
 
 954. There are many gates to the house of wisdom. 
 
 955. Permission to confer a favour is often the 
 greatest. 
 
 956. Safety is the best land-mark. 
 
 957. Virtue sanctions all. 
 
 958. Worth often neglected, and its habits only 
 noticed. 
 
 959. Who leaves behind him no memory leaves no 
 worth. 
 
 960. Worth is the heir of memory. 
 
 961. Wisdom hath a generous voice for all. 
 
 962. Wisdom is the beacon of all things. 
 
 963. Disunion is a step towards failure. 
 
 964. Exercise is the armour of health. 
 
 965. He that is deceitful is like a bridge broken ; 
 your fall may be irretrievable if you trust to it. 
 
 966. Wisdom shines forth from all things. 
 
 967. Most things are right if the eye be just. 
 
 968. Honour gives a bountiful recompense. 
 
42 MAXIMS. 
 
 969. Wisdom knows no denial if sought for with 
 diligence. 
 
 970. Evils are the incrustations of the soul. 
 
 971. The knowledge of the true source of a wrong we 
 receive often appeases the anger of it. 
 
 972. Shut the door against conceit of thine own and 
 others. 
 
 973. Still to the superior wisdom, let all thy faculties 
 be subjected. 
 
 974. Conquer thy own evils before you judge 
 others. 
 
 975. Chicanery permeates the law. 
 
 976. Flattery has its stages. 
 
 977. Wisdom is an endless tower ; who but One hath 
 ever attained the summit ? 
 
 978. Divine wisdom the true antidote to all pain. 
 
 979. He who can suffer in joy can contemn pleasures. 
 
 980. Nothing shall prosper against the cross. 
 
 981.- Action is nature's language. 
 
 982. Evils are the breathings of the unjust. 
 
 983. A true friend has often a greater necessity than 
 your own. 
 
 984. Wrath is sometimes the sword of virtue. 
 
 985. Let wisdom span the greatest desires. 
 
 986. Deem not him idle that produces worth ; we are 
 not idle always when at leisure, for rest is oftentimes the 
 action of the soul. 
 
 987. Scorn sometimes meets support, but owns little 
 proof. 
 
 988. We are just when we feel a righteous scorn. 
 
 989. Improbability is the home of fancy. 
 
 990. Fancy loves to walk in a maze. 
 
 991. Necessaries are ever sober, but pleasures intoxi- 
 cate. 
 
 992. Many proofs are required of a friend. 
 
 993. Pride serves mostly at the door of success. 
 
 994. Let wisdom be thy life and habit wear and 
 protection. 
 
 995. Knowledge is the mirror, and success gilds it. 
 
 996. Knowledge is a mirror which requires a reflec- 
 tion. 
 
 997. Success gilds the pen. 
 
 
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 998. Necessaries are light ; ~ and-wrfiPfGem we can 
 travel the longest road. 
 
 999. He is strong indeed whom pleasures and 
 excess hurt not. 
 
 1000. Wisdom is a never-failing mine. 
 
 1001. Deception is generally the mask which pleasure 
 wears. 
 
 1002. He who fears himself oft shows the greatest- 
 bravery. 
 
 1003. Good deeds are the flowers of wisdom. 
 
 1004. He who never hears seldom approves. 
 
 1005. He who loves ill seeks it. 
 
 1006. Desire is a great traveller. 
 
 1007. Wisdom in the present makes judgment in the 
 future. 
 
 1008. Wisdom is constant, and knows no excess or 
 surfeit ; but pleasure inconstant ever is driven about 
 by every breeze. 
 
 1009. Knowledge often owns weak resolves. 
 
 1010. Moderation is the balance of wisdom and con- 
 tentment. 
 
 1011. Forgetfulness of luxuries is the medicine or 
 antidote to them. 
 
 1012. Fortune leaps the strongest barriers. 
 
 1013. Wickedness doth not gain always in worldly 
 store ; and virtue's road is sometimes pleasant. 
 
 1014. To do that which others wish you not to do- 
 (and which, if done, would injure) is to contemn profit. 
 
 1015. Let an aim be as a necessity. 
 
 1016. An aim is a frequent visitor. 
 
 1017. Two feet cannot stand on the same ground ; 
 displace not another if it displaces thee. 
 
 1018. Causes have slept, but awaken to rejuvenate- 
 the world. 
 
 1019. Pleasure is a crumbling statue. 
 1020. Profit wear* a hood. 
 
 1021. The grave has no dishonesty. 
 
 1022. A wish betokens many things. 
 
 1023. Life is a journey we are always travelling ; but r 
 unlike most others, seldom care we to reach the end. 
 
 1024. See that thy just measure of economy be never 
 empty ; and let thy gains never be less than thy gifts. 
 
44 MAXIMS. 
 
 1025. Never give less than thy gains give thee. 
 
 1026. Wisdom does not always grant present remedy ; 
 but when ill-fortune is prevented, this is of itself a gain. 
 
 1027. The tongue is often the mirror of the ignorant 
 (or wicked) man, and by its use we see him best. 
 
 1028. Virtue is the best knowledge. 
 
 1029. Evil is a foe to knowledge. 
 
 1030. The past and future the frame which encircles 
 all. 
 
 1031. When wisdom seeks out ill it is but the 
 present the antidote. 
 
 1032. Short is life, but endless is the theme. 
 
 1033. Prudence satisfies the just. 
 
 1034. Where science ends nature will still begin. 
 
 1035. Wisdom and health preserve prosperity and 
 wealth. 
 
 1036. Often are the words of wisdom given to sense- 
 less and useless folly. 
 
 1037. Wisdom knows no ill. 
 
 1038. Let custom have the best tools, and it will 
 produce the best work. 
 
 1039. When labour is easily surmounted it often 
 breeds a love for it. 
 
 1040. Encourage the desires of the righteous. 
 
 1041. Critics have been so prone to error that a false 
 interpretation has often given fame. 
 
 1042. A good example is the reflection of virtue. 
 
 1043. Silence often subdues the desires of the envious. 
 
 1044. Position, not principle, is oftentimes the criterion. 
 
 1045. Silence is not always peace. 
 
 1046. Cares are fortune's problems. 
 
 1047. Health and patience are among the best friends 
 of adversity. 
 
 1048. Let health be the test of pleasure, and wisdom of 
 the mind. 
 
 1049. Accident is often the cloak of injury. 
 
 1050. The intention is oftfcimes a strong plaster to the 
 ill it causes. 
 
 1051. Many-tinted are the eyes of fashion. 
 
 1052. Wisdom enjoins temperance in all things. 
 
 1053. Fashion and philosophy are oft at variance. 
 
 1054. The body is the test of the mind's success. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 45 
 
 1055. Let knowledge of evils be as armour to ward 
 them off. 
 
 1056. Difficulties is oftentimes a heavy weight that 
 crush the just powers of the mind, and leaves the body to 
 support it. 
 
 1057. Few are the pleasures which improve. Pleasure 
 is a bad instructor. 
 
 1058. The future is not to be ignored, because the 
 present prospers. 
 
 1059. Give to fortune its best recompense. 
 
 1060. The higher we ascend, the greater also the 
 depth mental solutions are victories ; yet is their origin 
 oft buried low. 
 
 1061. Life has many different roads, but death is the 
 home of all. 
 
 1062. We know our wisdom when we know our 
 frailties. 
 
 1063. Strive to increase the just stores of wisdom and 
 decrease the number of thy follies. 
 
 1064. Our best home is our possessions. Then worth 
 should be our first concern. 
 
 1065. Too much rest fatigues. 
 
 1066. Money gives no fruit which knows no aim. 
 
 1067. Truth and honour are the preservers of know- 
 ledge. 
 
 1068. Bad deeds are bad debts. 
 
 1069. Rules are frequently but substitutes for our 
 wishes. 
 
 1070. Sight is our only property in those things which 
 we see and cannot come by. Our greatest possession we 
 oft contemn. 
 
 1071. Simplicity and worth are the nearest approaches 
 to perfection. 
 
 1072. Fortitude is the sinews of war. 
 
 1073. Wisdom breaks the stroke of passion. 
 
 1074. Wisdom hath concern in all things. 
 
 1075. When the world frowns, heaven smiles. 
 
 1076. Never let pride sit with humility. 
 
 1077. Wisdom's words in folly's mouth are but 
 pilfered. 
 
 1078. Silence is often the key to comfort and safety. 
 
 1079. Let truth and honour be the necessities of the soul. 
 
46 MAXIMS. 
 
 1080. A good maxim is a mirror of thought. 
 
 1081. Justice is the key of all difficulties. 
 
 1082. True friendship is like a ship unladen which 
 enriches the owner. 
 
 1083. Fame is a bright flower, but weeds abound 
 mostly around it. 
 
 1084. Fame dies when time frowns. 
 
 1085. Fame is a large inheritance. 
 
 1086. Time is the proof of all. 
 
 1087. Death welcomes all ; but the reward is not for 
 all. 
 
 1088. A trade is a lasting coat to the man that 
 knows it well. 
 
 1089. The result is the picture of the intention. 
 
 1090. Grief labours hardest in resting ; be employed, 
 and the mind will help to subdue it. 
 
 1091. He that contemns fortune when it favours may 
 court death. 
 
 1092. Wait for the result before you count too eagerly 
 your profit. 
 
 1093. It takes longer to cure evil than to seek it. 
 
 1094. Let charity be the standard of thy conduct 
 towards all. 
 
 1095. Glory to the greatest. Good deeds to the less. 
 
 1096. Support nature well, and she will recompense 
 thee well. 
 
 1097. Wisdom's life gives a lasting page. 
 
 1098. Merit is not always a safe investment. 
 
 1099. Eeward is a vassal, and follows merit. 
 
 1100. The conflict of minds often bring forth amity. 
 
 1101. Seek far to know worth. 
 
 1102. That which is scarce to have value must 
 have worth. 
 
 1103. Ill subsists on ill; but the life of it is the 
 spasms of death. 
 
 1104. That which asks a people's favour should be for 
 the people's worth. 
 
 1105. Enmity lives with despair. 
 
 1106. Time applauds the efforts of wisdom. 
 
 1107. Wisdom searches all time. 
 
 1108. Glory must have recompense. 
 
 1109. Hope never retrogrades. 
 
BY EDWAED COUNSEL. 47 
 
 1110. Hope ever looks forward ; it admits no retro- 
 spection (but as a spur to further action). 
 
 1111. Stability is the test of worth. 
 
 1112. Evil ever walks with unsteady gait. 
 
 1113. Destiny is the seal of fate. 
 
 1114. Good actions are mirrors which reflect them- 
 selves. 
 
 1115. This world would be a wretched place, indeed, 
 if ills only had possession of it. 
 
 1116. Better is it to die well than live ill. 
 
 1117. Every man is master of his destiny. 
 
 1118. A smile is sometimes self- approbation. 
 
 1119. Nothing satisfies without profit ; it even makes 
 your enemy think well of you. 
 
 1120. Profit is the test of station. 
 
 1121. Number is much akin to glory nowadays. 
 
 1122. War always rejoices some. 
 
 1123. A new union of .words is something like a 
 marriage often at first sight odd, but which wears off in 
 time. 
 
 1124. Life is in words ; and sometimes words are 
 lives. 
 
 1125. A laugh often requires study. 
 
 1126. Time never ends itself, but ends all. 
 
 1127. Things are often most worthy as they are 
 thought of, not as they are. 
 
 1128. There is more worth in writing a maxim than 
 in a wilderness of bald talk. 
 
 1129. That which has no sense has no worth. 
 
 1130. Is not the mind the best volume ? 
 
 1131. Fashion is often propriety. 
 
 1132. Propriety is one of the shields (or safeguards) 
 of society. 
 
 1133. It is as easy to have a theme as an idea. 
 
 1134. Let truth be the standard by which all thy 
 words and actions are measured. 
 
 1135. Praise that the intention of which is harmless ; 
 nay, more, praise the good intention even when followed 
 by failure. 
 
 1136. There are difficulties in every labour. 
 
 1137 Can pedantry exist without some degree cf 
 scholarship ? 
 
48 MAXIMS. 
 
 1138. Fortune sometimes knocks like a schoolmistress, 
 but then she teaches when she does. 
 
 1139. He who welcomes what is not to his good wel- 
 comes ill. 
 
 1140. Position is the armour of life. 
 
 1141. It is thy station, and not thy worth, which 
 often draws followers. 
 
 1142. To tell a follower from a friend requires a 
 searching eye. 
 
 1143. Wisdom is the only true criterion. 
 
 1144. A blind purse fills soonest. 
 
 1145. Action is the language of the eye. 
 
 1146. Nature looks with an equal smile on all. 
 
 1147. Lending often entails labour of mind and body. 
 
 1148. The best age is the best volume in which to see 
 wisdom. 
 
 1149. Let not wisdom be like life to rise and fall ; 
 but let it still ever rise with time. 
 
 1150. Freedom is the heir of labour. 
 
 1151. Where wants abound, the purse frowns. 
 
 1152. Profit is the repetition of success. 
 
 1153. Often do our follies support others who scorn 
 us. 
 
 1154. That which obstructs us may advance others. 
 
 1155. Independence is liberty. 
 
 1156. When we profit not, we have repeated in some 
 degree our follies. 
 
 1157. Many things prosper not him who prospers 
 many. 
 
 1158. Our appetites are often our greatest creditors. 
 
 1159. Knowledge often cuts the root that supports it. 
 
 1160. He who is particular in all things which are 
 not necessary will meet with many stumbles. 
 
 1161. Evil lives meander in the plains of death. 
 
 1162. Let duty direct thy conduct above profit. 
 
 1163. Let duty be thy unfailing sign. 
 
 1164. Fame increases in size unseen. 
 
 1165. Never consider thyself secure unless thou hast 
 these three things health, profit, and hope of advance- 
 ment. 
 
 1166. A new thought is often a new trade. 
 
 1167. Keceive thy best resolves from heaven. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 49 
 
 1168. Let no satisfaction be entertained which 
 injures and profits riot. 
 
 1169. Adopt not that which may not be shaped strictly 
 to justice and equity. 
 
 1170. Truth is the corner-stone of all knowledge. 
 1171. The soul loves its reflection. 
 1172. Virtue lives in contemplation and practice. 
 1173. Law is but suggestion. 
 
 1174. FIFTEEN PLAIN MOTTOES : 1. Scorn all folly. 
 2. Seek for substance. 3. Exercise the faculties. 4. 
 Love industry, and reward will follow thee. 5. Be enter- 
 tained with wise discourse. 6. Conquer all envy. 7. 
 Wise forbearance is the victor of anger. 8. Be firm in 
 thy best intention. 9. Harken to nature's just com- 
 plaints. 10. Praise is often irksome. 11. Cherish good 
 examples. 12. Evils love their like ; they flourish but to 
 poison ; their influence, infamy. 13. The greatest will 
 never be known. Two Seal Mottoes : 14. Nothing will 
 be forgotten while this is unforgot. 15. Chain Motto : 
 Friendship is a slave, and this chain binds it. 
 
 1175. Genius lives in a mirror. 
 
 1176. Anger weakens with distance and time. 
 
 1177. Slight not wisdom. 
 
 1178. Be thou before the storm. 
 
 1179. Take wisdom for thy best guide. 
 
 1180. As thoughts, so are the arts and sciences endless, 
 except with time. 
 
 1181. Science meant to bless will be the cause of future 
 wars. 
 
 1182. Philosophy was first acquired by the knowledge 
 of human errors. 
 
 1183. Know no nation's ill approval. 
 
 1184. Pause well when inventions direct towards 
 danger. 
 
 1185. Alteration is a key of science and invention. 
 
 1186. There is sometimes utility in chance. 
 
 1187. We cannot appease the frown of time. 
 
 1188. In all things bear a prudent mind. 
 
 1189. Life is a fountain which o'erspreads all. 
 
 1190. He who rejoices at what pains others should 
 have never rejoiced (or have felt the strength of comfort). 
 
 1191. Be first in just resolves. 
 
50 MAXIMS. 
 
 1192. The good intention hides many faults. 
 
 1193. Do good to all, and detest only the follies of 
 all. 
 
 1194. When we endeavour to be just, we may perhaps 
 stand at times in risk of contamination ; but we cannot be 
 contaminated if we are just. 
 
 1195. Fear not thou dangers which apply to all. 
 
 1196. Let the great result be thy chief aim of life. 
 
 1197. Life is but a waiting ; for a short time we wait 
 on life. 
 
 1198. That is no life which gives no result. 
 
 1199. Double thy industry when failure whispers. 
 
 1200. Wisdom is the teacher of all. 
 
 1201. Industry is a fruitful monitor at times. 
 
 1202. Philosophy teaches best when she wears an 
 humble garb. 
 
 1203. Pride (only) does not always repel a just man. 
 
 1204. Trust time it never flatters. 
 
 1205. Let humility be the jewel of thy conduct. 
 
 1206. The just shall not be repelled. 
 
 1207. True pleasure consists in the absence of all folly. 
 
 1208. " Fair and honest, " says the world, but does not 
 practise it. 
 
 1209. Men's ears are ever open when profit beckons. 
 
 1210. Injustice feeds the law. 
 
 1211. Exchange (without loss) is gain to both. 
 
 1212. Every day brings forth a new destiny. 
 
 1213. Be convinced well, and fear not the result. 
 
 1214. Deem nothing impossible that admits of reason 
 and use. 
 
 1215. Do not always spend thy best judgments. 
 
 1216. Names are often facts. 
 
 1217. We would be more diligent did we but think 
 that our life may be any day at stake. 
 
 1218. The future is not always bright; often is it 
 o'ercast with dark clouds which depress hope. 
 
 1219. Scorn not necessity. 
 
 1220. Spend not time without an object. 
 
 1221. Use is often dangerous if we are negligent in 
 observing wisdom's rule. 
 
 1222. When envy frowns the evil often lessens. 
 
 1223. Diligence co-exists with use and habit. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 51 
 
 1224. It is not a good rule which will not stand a double 
 test ; if thou art favoured to-day, and not the next, look 
 to thy tablets. 
 
 1225. Fancy the lightest of all yet hath strongest 
 arms. 
 
 1226. If thou may'st, think well and die well let 
 thy life be the security at any hour. 
 
 1227. Wisdom is a safe ship ; and we may trust 
 ourselves to it in all weathers. 
 
 1228. Keport has a malicious tongue. 
 
 1229. Interest often qualifies praise, and checks 
 admonition. 
 
 1230. Often is life (to some) but a flourish and with 
 the same use. 
 
 1231. Truth and justice are weapons with which we 
 may encounter any dangers. 
 
 1232. For life it is wise to live ; for truth it is wise to 
 die. 
 
 1233. Evils often leave us when their support fails. 
 
 1234. Reason enlarges with time and experience. 
 
 1235 i Hope is often an enlarged mirror. 
 
 1236. Preserve thy purse and mind's peace ; if one is 
 lessened, both suffer. 
 
 1237. Men have more faculties than they are aware 
 of. 
 
 1238. Time and wealth create wants ; these wants 
 ideas (and how to compass them). 
 
 1239. Sympathy for one lessens when the danger 
 is universal. 
 
 1240. Justice should exist in all actions. 
 
 1241. That which often gives the hardest labour gives 
 often the least in the beginning. 
 
 1242. Let there be no delay in what is proved of 
 worth. 
 
 1243. Be concerned in no evil. 
 
 1244. By truth we rise and fail not. 
 
 1245. Exchange true friendship with him only who 
 has proved that he is worthy of it. 
 
 1246. Favour in heart gives strength. 
 
 1247. Not lost is that which bears fruit and profit. 
 
 1248. Certain is truth, and as certain the punishment 
 (by transgressing it). 
 
52 MAXIMS. 
 
 1249. Works achieved (and capable of being repeated) 
 are the true tests of talent. 
 
 1250. In our best interests consist our safety. 
 
 1251. Levity is engrossed by folly. 
 
 1252. The cause is the body of effects. 
 
 1253. Fail not with the desires of hope. 
 
 1254. Ill-will is a dull limner. 
 
 1255. Ill-will clouds best intentions. 
 
 1256. As the body (with costumes), so may ideas be 
 dressed in many garbs. 
 
 1257. The mind finds comfort sometimes in repetition 
 (of grief). 
 
 1258. Need asks simple tools, and knows no scorn. 
 
 1259. Words surround facts like leaves among trees. 
 
 1260. Wisdom applies to all tests. 
 
 1261. Grant a favour when asked if conformable to 
 reason, and by which profit is unlessened. 
 
 1262. Mark men that are not marked. 
 
 1263. Never perfect if with one ailment. 
 
 1264. True to report, true to fact. 
 
 1265. Good principles can never be too well known. 
 
 1266. Cherish ideas when strengthened in truth. 
 
 1267. Endeavour after those ideas or pursuits which 
 have been tested with profit. 
 
 1268. Let the soul always share a part. 
 
 1269. Truth dislikes all subterfuge. 
 
 1270. The pursuit of that which does not reward 
 sometimes brings forth fruit in its course. 
 
 1271. Sanction not the errors of the ignorant. 
 
 1272. Prudence oft co-exists with grief. 
 
 1273. To hear some people one would think they 
 came into the world as to a laughing-hall. 
 
 1274. Justice often fails where the intention is just. 
 
 1275. Justice hath but few tears for honesty in 
 straits. 
 
 1276. Prudence is a strong bulwark against impending 
 destruction. 
 
 1277. Great minds contemn a level. 
 
 1278. Light sometimes obstructs research. 
 
 1279. The first step in our journey of prosperityoften 
 is defeat. 
 
 1280. There is a link binding all human actions. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 53 
 
 1281. Well to be wise wise to be well. Good health 
 is often more in our power than we imagine. 
 
 1282. The power to destroy (unless it be evil) is ever 
 an ungracious office. 
 
 1283. Negligence at times breeds much labour. 
 
 1284. If against the best with the worst. 
 
 1285. Study to forego thy follies, and define thy 
 own evil ways but to mend them. 
 
 1286. Mark not the words or ways of the evil man ; 
 his condemnation is his practice. 
 
 1287. 'Tis fit that great things be not understood by 
 all. 
 
 1288. Virtue is the only true victor. 
 
 1289. A good example is a picture of virtue. 
 
 1290. When little meets the eye much may still pre- 
 sent itself to the mind. 
 
 1291. Maxims, like money, profit not if unused. 
 
 1292. Virtue has a generous thought for all. 
 
 1293. Value grows fast with scarcity. 
 
 1294- Remember that death is certain as life. 
 
 1295. Age is but a comparison. 
 
 1296. Tongue-praise mostly ends in words. 
 
 1297. The practice of wisdom is the test of it. 
 
 1298. Great events often take place quickly, but are 
 brought about slowly. 
 
 1299. He who can answer all and satisfy all must be 
 wise and rich. 
 
 1300. Maxims live in all years. 
 
 1301. Interest is a patient listener. 
 
 1302. Be not the first always to account for ill-deeds. 
 
 1303. To produce our knowledge is not wise at all 
 times and places. 
 
 1304. Victory ennobles battalions. 
 
 1305. Peace is stronger than war. 
 
 1306. When the road is known it is but a matter of 
 steps ; trouble (or anxiety) is a weary traveller. 
 
 1307. Praise is sometimes tyranny. 
 
 1308. Carefulness often saves error and trouble. 
 Error is trouble. 
 
 1309. Truth is well allied. 
 
 1310. Public opinion the root which nourishes most 
 arts and sciences. 
 
54 MAXIMS. 
 
 1311. If we made the best of all things there would 
 then be but few ills in life. 
 
 1312. The farther from truth the farther from happi- 
 ness. 
 
 1313. Digression the parent of many thoughts and 
 acts. 
 
 1314. A philosophy may be raised from its ashes 
 the seal may be reproduced. 
 
 1315. Let there be some profit in that which 
 concerns us. 
 
 1316. Keceive that well which thou canst account for 
 well. 
 
 1317. Favour not the envious. 
 
 1318. Just actions are the passports to favour. 
 
 1319. The proof must still come from one's own mind. 
 
 1320. Wisdom is the necessity of the just. 
 
 1321. A good memory is the best portrait. 
 
 1322. That in which we excel we do not always 
 admire in others. 
 
 1323. The structure is weak unless truth upholds (or 
 builds) it. 
 
 1324. Acts not stamped with success are but as trials. 
 
 1325. Dislike is sometimes borrowed enmity. 
 
 1326. Often to seek earnings is to seek (to know) 
 troubles. 
 
 1327. He who is out of favour let him be chary of his 
 words. 
 
 1328. Where there is want of support is there want of 
 success. 
 
 1329. How oftentimes is that followed which profits 
 not. 
 
 1330. Dress is with many the picture of your station, 
 and regulates the conduct of these. 
 
 1331. Many rebuffs meet one. Not to observe is the 
 best contempt; nay, value a rebuff occasionally it tests 
 one's philosophy. 
 
 1332. Try that the least where accident threatens. 
 
 1333. Admire not, except stamped with justice and 
 equity. 
 
 1334. The best has often been despised. 
 
 1335. Life is with some but a mirror, and all that 
 they wish is to reflect themselves and their follies. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 55 
 
 1336. Property often cures neglect of thyself. 
 
 1337. Property is a strong argument. 
 
 1338. Only that is worth acquiring which may be 
 justly kept, and in safety. 
 
 1339. Penance after evil deeds is the best repairer of 
 them. 
 
 1340. Pain is understanding at times. 
 
 1341. True happiness looks to the future. 
 
 1342. Virtue has this strong recommendation over 
 vice that it agrees with life and ordinary actions. 
 
 1343. Store up wisdom for future, as well as for 
 present, use ; lee not wisdom be but an occasional visitor 
 let it ever dwell with thee. 
 
 1344. Seek not for those things which are not 
 stamped with hope. 
 
 1345. The frame of wisdom (or philosophy) is of 
 simple materials. 
 
 1346. Evils live when knowledge (or prudence) is 
 dead. 
 
 1347. Ignorance is to be commended w r here the 
 intention (or act) is just. 
 
 1348. Best thoughts are those best acted upon. 
 
 1349. Please all, that all may be pleased. 
 
 1350. If charity lies not in a neighbour, practise it 
 yourself. 
 
 1351. One good thought (or action) redeems much 
 frivolity, but not all. 
 
 1352. When thou art deceived let not thy soul meet 
 enmity. 
 
 1353. Bevenge is but a small circle. 
 
 1354. How many are the ills which we are unable to 
 influence ! 
 
 1355. The house is a great traveller. 
 
 1356. When there is no probability hope is a buen 
 retiro. 
 
 1357. Just are those things which give just results. 
 
 1358. Prudence often lives (and dies) with success. 
 
 1359. Evils die oftener where wisdom errs not. 
 
 1360. War leads a nation quickly ; but the fruits of it 
 are got slowly. 
 
 1361. A rough road travelled quickly. 
 
 1362. War is the great manager of destiny. 
 
56 MAXIMS. 
 
 1863. War often holds destiny ; and gives to fortune 
 certainty. 
 
 1364. Little exertion often gives food for the mind ; 
 all is not great that is done by mighty hands. 
 
 1365. Imperfections crowd the world. 
 
 1366. Pleasure only lives where wisdom dies ; the 
 former can be ever deferred without loss, the latter may 
 be fatal if once omitted. 
 
 1367. Wisdom guards us often unknown ; its 
 principles must be stamped with habit. 
 
 1368. Sow evils none, and virtue's growth will 
 strengthen. 
 
 1369. Interest is often a dire foe to virtuous conduct. 
 
 1370. Bow with submission before thy soul's dictates 
 rather than before the world's. 
 
 1371. To act upon an unlawful oath is to court 
 destruction. 
 
 1372. Wisdom ever cherishes its work. 
 
 1373. Strive to overcome that which betrays when 
 thyself may be involved. 
 
 1374. That which betrays is a bad support. 
 
 1375. What is got unrighteously is of more danger 
 to the possessor than the owner of it. 
 
 1376. Save thy conscience against all comers. 
 
 1377. Serve not ill-advisers by support. 
 
 1378. Examples are the pictures of wisdom. 
 
 1379. Home wisdom make soundest maxims. 
 ^1380. True wisdom, like pearls, requires time to 
 discover. 
 
 1381. The despair of success often produces charity 
 towards rivals. 
 
 1382. The pen travels over all space. 
 
 1383. Ideas are visitors often coming ; but the most 
 valued do not always stay longest. 
 
 1384. Time confirms sometimes by forgetting the 
 origin. 
 
 1385. Some ideas are virtues unborn. 
 
 1386. What is often misery in peace is pleasure in war. 
 ^ 1387. The mind has its theme ; and about this .wisdom 
 either beckons or keeps silent. 
 
 1388. There is a wisdom in all our actions, although 
 we may be unconscious of it. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 57 
 
 1389. It is not possible to live without some degree of 
 wisdom; it is ever a theme and problem. 
 
 1390. Wisdom o'ergoverns all, and is often present 
 when least we expect it. 
 
 1391. Caution is temperance. 
 
 1392. Taste is often the child of prejudice. 
 
 1393. Certainty of gain is fortune unmasked. 
 
 1394. Patience is temperance of conduct. 
 
 1395. Virtue does not consist merely in overcoming 
 one obstacle of life, but all. 
 
 1396. Let thy conduct be as colours carefully blended. 
 
 1397. Truth is the best advantage. 
 
 1398. Excellence is never single. 
 
 1399. Let disdain be far from thee ; for charity is no 
 visitor where disdain or envy hold their dwellings. 
 
 1400. Possibility is often destruction, and "impos- 
 sibility" safety. 
 
 1401. Let the heart ever be the most persistive 
 questioner. 
 
 1402. The soul is the root of all our faculties. 
 
 1403. Truth is, at times, the only guarantee of value. 
 
 1404. The most difficult things are built on simplicity. 
 
 1405. Simplicity is the foundation of Nature. 
 
 1406. 111 returns make bad custom. 
 
 1407. Caution is the foundation of valour. 
 
 1408. Negligence often gives interest and power to 
 others. 
 
 1409. Things desired are oftentimes of less value than 
 our present possessions. 
 
 1410. To live or die where honour leads (the soldier's 
 maxim). 
 
 1411. Art gives labour, and makes even leisure, at 
 times, employment. 
 
 1412. Ideas are born in chaos. 
 
 1413. Perfection is a great theme of argument. 
 
 1414. The greatest benefits do not come singly. 
 
 1415. Natural justice few are ignorant of. 
 
 1416. Quarrels are the children of perfection. 
 
 1417. What is good is the foundation of honour and 
 valour. 
 
 1418. A good maxim is a spring of thought which 
 nourishes all. 
 
58 MAXIMS. 
 
 1419. We must depend on Heaven for all things. 
 
 1420. Possession often gives command of conduct. 
 
 1421. When Eight meets Danger, Caution approves. 
 
 1422. Excess is the canker of all things. 
 
 1423. Satisfy the just desires of the righteous. 
 
 1424. Be slothful only to meet evils. 
 
 1425. Desire of praise is a fruitful tree. 
 
 1426. Desire of praise sometimes produces good 
 effects. 
 
 1427. Value well that advice which prospers thee. 
 
 1428. Fortitude is a strong armour against ill report. 
 
 1429. Ills often give boldness. 
 
 1430. Every living creature but man is born satisfied 
 with its station. 
 
 1431. When Nature finally commands it is useless to 
 argue. 
 
 1432. Our feelings are often the habits of the mind. 
 
 1433. Perception is the only reward. 
 
 1434. Desires satisfied are but as seeds sown a second 
 time (to the enquiring mind). 
 
 1435. Certainty is a rapid traveller. 
 
 1436. To be just in all desires is to act with wisdom. 
 
 1437. Fashion is a sieve, and money spent on it as 
 dust. 
 
 1438. Change not justice's rule. 
 
 1439. Never let custom lessen thy purse. 
 
 1440. Pleasure is a great humbler of pride. 
 
 1441. Time levels at last every purse. 
 
 1442. Eecommendation has two faces. 
 
 1443. The fewer acquaintances the more friends. 
 
 1444. Of two friends seldom are both equal. 
 
 1445. Fashion is not always with honour. 
 
 1446. 111 success sometimes produces good in others. 
 
 1447. Good resolutions broken are like doors ajar 
 which are blown open by the wind ; when one opens, 
 another follows. 
 
 1448. Pleasure often hurts in the name of necessity. 
 
 1449. Profit often consorts with vanity. 
 
 1450. When the mind is pleased, often does the body 
 labour. 
 
 1451. What is saved noiv will perhaps serve thee 
 afterwards. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 59 
 
 1452. Consider before thou spend : whether the 
 present is the best time, and the article the best value. 
 
 1453. Eesolve slowly on that which has no present 
 security. 
 
 1454. Oftentimes is pleasure the ally of scorn. 
 
 1455. How often does pleasure produce ill towards 
 others ! 
 
 1456. He who submits to present favour often makes 
 for himself future trouble. 
 
 1457. Literature is an orchard. 
 
 1458. Nothing is wise which does not conform itself 
 to the dictates of the Almighty. 
 
 1459. The proper care of money is the only worth of 
 it. 
 
 1460. Harken (in thy present success) to the probabili- 
 ties of the future. 
 
 1461. Education follows but does not always produce 
 wisdom. 
 
 1462. A short friend is oft a true friend ; time alters 
 and lessens (instead of increasing) good faith in one. 
 
 1463. If we repine at the present, success moves 
 farther off. 
 
 1464. That which profits most, and quickly. 
 
 1465. Be accountable but for thy one leading idea in 
 Truth, and not for any definitions that may be brought 
 against it. 
 
 1466. Unless patience is founded on hope it stagnates. 
 
 1467. Fate is but wisdom, and this governs all ; for 
 where there is no wisdom there is no government. 
 
 1468. Ideas are centralised in space. 
 
 1469. Manner is but association. 
 
 1470. Our natures are only unaffected when we are 
 unconscious. 
 
 1471. Wisdom with successful talent favours body 
 and mind. 
 
 1472. Profit is the best patent. 
 
 1473. Fools often scoff at that which is unattainable 
 by them. 
 
 1474. Habit and practice are the clouds which darken 
 virtue's precepts ; few minds are ignorant of prudence. 
 
 1475. To see and observe rightly this is experience. 
 
 1476. Our appetites are the basest flatterers. 
 
60 MAXIMS. 
 
 1477. Let meditation utilise the pipe. 
 
 1478. If you will have a habit, adopt those only which 
 hurt least, though better to have none, for that is only 
 peace. 
 
 1479. In all think rightly ; be charitable, and thy acts 
 will necessarily follow. 
 
 1480. The soul is still the director. 
 
 1481. Contemn not that which rightly supports thee. 
 
 1482. Civility is an enduring favour. 
 
 1483. The knowledge of useful things is a purse 
 seldom lost. 
 
 1484. If you know wisdom and do not practice it 
 your knowledge is but encumbrance. 
 
 1485. Degrade not wisdom by applying it to those 
 things that are not worthy of it. 
 
 1486. To have succeeded in little matters is still as a 
 labour misapplied. 
 
 1487. Observe anything that gives a profitable thought. 
 
 1488. Security is the key of business. 
 
 1489. Trust that point which can bear great prosperity 
 with as even a mind as poverty. 
 
 1490. Sometimes neglect brings accession of fortune. 
 
 1491. That gift is but a bait which expects a return. 
 
 1492. Fortune often usurps wisdom's name. 
 
 1493. Money is a great discoverer. 
 
 1494. Exertion enhances reward (and gilds it). 
 
 1495. Memory is a guilder. 
 
 1496. He who satisfies not thy mind by his conduct 
 may still satisfy his own, and with justice. 
 
 1497. Conversation is ever weak when built on folly, 
 except to controvert it. 
 
 1498. Often is wisdom unuttered, but proven. 
 
 1499. Much care is the dross of possessions. 
 
 1500. He who speaks ill of another often drops the 
 shield of protection. 
 
 1501. Speak not as thou would not act evil. 
 
 1502. He who asserts evil supports it. 
 
 1503. Laws are a nation's egotism. 
 
 1504. Proof shortens argument and often enforces it. 
 
 1505. Duration is the essence of worth. 
 
 1506. A dissolute life often makes weak the most 
 solemn oaths. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 61 
 
 1507. It is thy property which regulates the conduct 
 of most men. 
 
 1508. Knowledge is the scale which balances respect 
 and disdain. 
 
 1509. Where tyranny is practicable in a prince it will 
 soon come to be (as) a necessity. 
 
 1510. Cherish that which is stamped with just hope. 
 
 1511. Fashion often blinds men to good manners. 
 
 1512. Observation is the door to custom. 
 
 1513. Present success is but a question of futurity. 
 
 1514. Often is ignorance a sieve of folly ; it does not 
 rest with it. 
 
 1515. Exchange is the balance of life. 
 
 1516. Often does enmity undermine the knowledge of 
 good. 
 
 1517. Hope is the measure of joy or success. 
 
 1518. Thy follies may be support to others, but never 
 to thyself. 
 
 1519. Let necessity be a security to the just. 
 
 1520. Eumours generally grow deformed as they 
 travel. 
 
 1521. Leaven all thy deeds with justice, for this is 
 the best essence of things, and lasts even when the things 
 desired fade away. 
 
 1522. Do not waver in what is evil ; but let thy first 
 word be as strong as the condemation virtue gives. 
 
 1523. Deny all things wherein justice and virtue 
 consent not. 
 
 1524. He who spends his earnings in folly sets seeds 
 of future work and trouble. 
 
 1525. Lose not, discard not, in justice. 
 
 1526. The best deserts do not always receive the best 
 rewards. 
 
 1527. Mystery is the magnet of enquiry. 
 
 1528. Fair and firm resolve is a strong bridge of life. 
 
 1529. It is not wise to let necessity (or the hope of it) 
 be discarded. 
 
 1530. The pursuits of a friend is oftentimes a strong 
 index of the value of one. 
 
 1531. Misapplied wit is a film over virtue's eyes. 
 
 1532. No safety unless where wisdom (or justice) 
 leads. 
 
62 MAXIMS. 
 
 1533. Danger is nearly in every place if means are 
 used. 
 
 1534. Without means without nature. 
 
 1535. Wisdom is ever present if thou do not engage 
 it. 
 
 1536. The rewards of wisdom are not given for noth- 
 ing ; we must deny many things to ensure possession of 
 them. 
 
 1537. Propriety is one of the strongest supports of 
 civilisation. 
 
 1538. Balance inadvertence with self-denial. 
 
 1539. A little amusement is not folly, but much leads 
 to expense and loss of fortune. 
 
 1540. When the present makes it impossible, to defer 
 it and not to forget, is the best course. 
 
 1541. Memory is often prompt. 
 
 1542. Wise is it to know our advantage and not to 
 use it at all times. 
 
 1543. Abstain when wisdom warns ; grief is a bad 
 substitute for argument. 
 
 1544. Often is a name the picture of a theme. 
 
 1545. Blame hath a busy life. 
 
 1546. Interpret to the best the actions of the just. 
 
 1547. Observation is the support of example. 
 
 1548. Favour without profit is but guilding. 
 
 1549. Curiosity is often labour masked. 
 
 1550. Truth is capable of being exercised in every 
 place. 
 
 1551. Duty binds with unlocked golden chains. 
 
 1552. Be as peremptory in the dismissal of unjust 
 friends as the admittance (or acknowledgment) of un- 
 known ones. 
 
 1553. We seldom know many people without being 
 known to our disadvantage. 
 
 1554. Build thy best resolves on truth. 
 
 1555. Early solved early safe. 
 
 1556. Value not present profit unless the foundation 
 of it is good. 
 
 1557. Agreement of follies is the stronghold of evil. 
 
 1558. To misinterpret just actions is to undermine 
 them (or the cause of them). 
 
 1559. New friends often new mystery. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 63 
 
 1560. The best supports of the mind are gone when 
 evil is deemed reward. 
 
 1561. Merit (?) no evil reward. 
 
 1562. Feelings are sometimes unjust interpreters. 
 
 1563. Truth to God is truth to thy neighbour. 
 
 1564. Civility often clouds much knowledge of men. 
 
 1565. Observation is a good traveller. 
 
 1566. Scorn not necessity in humble things. 
 
 1567. A good test is often a card to fortune's favour. 
 
 1568. Probity is a good support of hope. 
 
 1569. Open not the door that may be turned on thee. 
 
 1570. Seek the best time for the best effort. 
 
 1571. Let conversation vary; then will ideas, per- 
 chance, be heard. 
 
 1572. The possibility should not be forgotten in the 
 certainty of a just action. 
 
 1573. Memory often entails much labour. 
 
 1574. Let thy greatest hope be certain as life. 
 
 1575. Many things we may be ignorant of, especially 
 those which improve neither mind nor body. 
 
 1576. Let amusement cultivate and humour the 
 feelings and improve the faculties of the mind. 
 
 1577. Wishes are often stronger than necessities. 
 
 1578. Adopt not that which may not be justly ruled. 
 
 1579. What is food for wit may often be made good 
 for truth. 
 
 1580. The conduct is the signal of good or evil. 
 
 1581. The grave is ever awake. 
 
 1582. Wisdom abjures none that properly seek it. 
 
 1583. Evil is the child of destruction. 
 
 1584. Good rest is a good possession. 
 
 1585. Let health be ever level ; what is against the 
 balance is against the constitution. 
 
 1586. Kational fancy is allied to truth. 
 
 1587. Some men, like pictures, may be seen in 
 different views. 
 
 1588. Let no opportunity be neglected for the practice 
 of good motives ; for a good motive is oftentimes a good 
 example. 
 
 1589. We live as we die, and die as we live. 
 
 1590. Do not plant all at once ; one benefit is naught 
 till its fruit is seen. 
 
64 MAXIMS. 
 
 1591. Never regard any enmity that follows good 
 actions. 
 
 1592. Trust wisdom to the fore. 
 
 1593. The misinterpretation of necessity or rational 
 pleasure is the cause of much misery. 
 
 1594. Life is a volume we may ever read (and require 
 no library). 
 
 1595. Proofs are ever weak when enmity directs them. 
 
 1596. See that thou justify thyself when doing so by 
 others. 
 
 1597. Receive injustice as thou would'st do in justice. 
 
 1598. Banish evil men as thou would'st the evils 
 practised by them. 
 
 1599. Moments are seeds of time, and when well 
 sown good fortune will be oft the fruit. 
 
 1600. Let this idea-question be the avant-coureur of 
 all thy actions : " Is this conformable to wisdom's rule ?" 
 
 1601. Many actions and words would be rendered 
 unnecessary if necessity were truly followed. 
 
 1602. It is unwise not to hope when justice and 
 possibility sanction the end. 
 
 1603. Go not round and round, but let thy end be 
 ever in view. 
 
 1604. Just wishes are present bounties. 
 
 1605. Deception ever sojourns with excess. 
 
 1606. As the body, so does the soul seek profit in 
 good things. 
 
 1607. Just desires are just possessions. 
 
 1608. Just truths dwell with just desires. 
 
 1609. Possessions are not always tangible. 
 
 1610. Certify just honour. 
 
 1611. It is no ignorance to be unmindful of those 
 things wherein knowledge retrogrades. 
 
 1612. Growth is the motive power of creation. 
 
 1613. Life is an arch. 
 
 1614. Perfection is the heart of wisdom. 
 
 1615. Custom often gives poor possession. 
 
 1616. Virtue is a plant which might have grown on 
 any field. 
 
 1617. Words not weighed [or heard of value] are 
 (as) no words. 
 
 1618. Save even thy just expenses by economy. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 65 
 
 1619. Complete only good works. 
 
 1620. Good principles are good guarantees. 
 
 1621. Prejudice and taste often undermine principles. 
 
 1622. Subject, cause, and result is a trio of necessity. 
 
 1623. The visions of true wisdom are facts. 
 
 1624. The support is often intended (like pillars in 
 buildings) for ornament and not use. 
 
 1625. Wisdom will still continue to be heeded, and not, 
 through all time. 
 
 1626. Use and experience (often) convert labour to 
 exercise. 
 
 1627. Unjust indecision is the bane of party. 
 
 1628. A healthy public opinion should ever consider 
 that which is unjust as unnational. 
 
 1629. Profit sometimes draws necessity after it. 
 
 1630. Ideas and actions are both modellers, and change 
 sides. 
 
 1631. Complexity without use is like a foundation 
 without value. 
 
 1632. Faint hope deals often with exception. 
 
 1633. A good opinion is often a seal of success. 
 
 1634. Just moments passed' give even the uncertainty 
 of life a value. 
 
 1635. MOTTO : To-day for thee ; to-morrow for 
 memory. 
 
 1636. Merit enlarges as it is generalised. 
 
 1637. Let action be good for all, and merit will be 
 enhanced. 
 
 1638. Proofs are the fruits of the mind. 
 
 1639. To seek for excellence is often to meet it 
 unawares. 
 
 1640. Knowledge, like a friend, is sometimes unex- 
 pectedly met with. 
 
 1641. Custom oft gives authority and usurps worth. 
 
 1642. The best advantage is the best choice (or w r hen 
 we can choose the best). 
 
 1643. Friendship, like a dinner, cools if we do not 
 accept the warning of it in time. 
 
 1644. Either labour or be charitable. 
 
 1645. Idleness witti charity is better than action with 
 enmity. 
 
 1646. Evil is never a sure protection 
 
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 1647. Sense may at times discard sound, but should 
 be deemed a necessity of it. 
 
 1648. Unless generosity is reciprocal it is seldom 
 gain. 
 
 1649. Anger leads some to wealth. 
 
 1650. A light heart always is (often) a " light head." 
 
 1651. Profitable ideas are the mind's best expenditure. 
 
 1652. Much repetition makes memory habitable. 
 
 1653. Let the armour of wisdom be ever thy habit. 
 
 1654. We cannot successfully contend with wisdom 
 throughout life. 
 
 1655. The wise man will select good models as he 
 would gifts. 
 
 1656. True humility does not obstruct our talents. 
 
 1657. Wisdom is ubiquitous; ever present at all 
 times and places whether disregarded or not. 
 
 1658. Wisdom is the destiny of truth. 
 
 1659. A bad heart has no neutrality. 
 
 1660. Where necessity seems to be disregarded there 
 is it often used. 
 
 1661. Fame is, at times, even sweet to a shepherd. 
 
 1662. Wishes are often the text-books of conversation. 
 
 1663. Position is (at times) the best support of pro- 
 priety. 
 
 1664. Good intentions redeem involuntary offence. 
 
 1665. Examples are often rules to youth. 
 
 1666. Liberty most favoured has still much dependence. 
 
 1667. Measure obligations by benefits. 
 
 1668. Aimless conversation is like a road leading to 
 many habitations, but not to our own. 
 
 1669. A just doer is the best designer. 
 
 1670. Concession is often proof. 
 
 1671. Solitude should govern best intention. 
 
 1672. Eemember that effects grow strong with 
 knowledge. 
 
 1673. The origin oft repels, while the fact assures. 
 
 1674. Good intentions not forsaken are as deeds to 
 the mind. 
 
 1675. Let caution ever be present when probability 
 of failure intercepts. 
 
 1676. We cannot be just to God if we are unjust to 
 mankind. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 67 
 
 1677. Change is often the test of proof. 
 
 1678. Certainty is the foundation of justice. 
 
 1679. Self does not always accurately distinguish in 
 life where prejudice obtains. 
 
 1680. Progress consists often in the knowledge of the 
 effects (of our actions) in others. 
 
 1681. Admit of exceptions in what is uncertain in 
 life. 
 
 1682. Labour sometimes decreases in value by 
 practice. 
 
 1683. Madness often affords a good passport where 
 n^erit meets none. 
 
 1684. Prejudice is often inclination ; we are seldom 
 entirely neutral. 
 
 1685. To give ideas form, is the great spring of 
 exertion. 
 
 1686. Amusement is a powerful magnet, and draws 
 often the wise man (unconsciously.) 
 
 1687. A good inclination is often a successful traveller. 
 
 168,8. Without admiration without friendship. 
 
 1689. Philosophy reckons well when used well. 
 
 1690. Possess many things which no friendship may 
 command. 
 
 1691. Folly lessens the value of things. 
 
 1692. Satisfaction is reward. 
 
 1693. Prudence is sometimes a fruit of despair. 
 
 1694. He often excels who is satisfied. 
 
 1695. Ideas and words change often like the body ; 
 and sound lives well when the body is but ill. 
 
 1696. No definition is entirely true which can admit 
 of a better. 
 
 1697. Never envy the success of folly. 
 
 1698. Good use is good interest. 
 
 1699. Difficulty gives much excuse. 
 
 1700. Make exchange an equivalent : often are those 
 things of less value which we possess than what we give. 
 
 1701. Despair springs from wishes unsatisfied. 
 
 1702. Be only satisfied with those things which are 
 reasonable. 
 
 1703. Thought is a many-sided mirror. 
 
 1704. Time admits no argument; it often justifies 
 reason when it seems to deny it. 
 
68 MAXIMS. 
 
 1705. Simple things, if attentively regarded, oft lead 
 to wisdom. 
 
 1706. To measure some things properly is to lessen 
 their advantages. 
 
 1707. Enmity never has a lasting seal. 
 
 1708. Time shapes itself to many actions. 
 
 1709. Proper time is often certain fortune. 
 
 1710. How often is endeavour allied to fortune. 
 
 1711. What follows ever alters. 
 
 1712. Little waste is often great profit. 
 
 1713. Meditation works in rest, and gives fruit for 
 further action. 
 
 1714. It were hard to say if life or ideas give most 
 themes ; both are necessary, but the best use is the best 
 necessity. 
 
 1715. Association is the foundation of prejudice. 
 
 1716. Of little value to us are those things when the 
 mind approves not by the test of experience. 
 
 1717. Truth, like good medicine, is oftentimes re- 
 pugnant to our present feelings, but gives vigour after- 
 wards. 
 
 1718. To speak with advantage we should know with 
 advantage. 
 
 1719. Bad causes are born deformed. 
 
 1720. As people, so may ideas, live by association. 
 
 1721. A good intention is the best foil to misconstruc- 
 tion. 
 
 1722. That which brings no present custom (if 
 properly valued) often produces most. 
 
 1723. True contentment must conquer many evils. 
 
 1724. To be wise by proxy is to gain and not labour. 
 
 1725. Truth and virtue will satisfy the best desires of 
 the virtuous. 
 
 1726. To reward chance is sometimes to pay for evil. 
 
 1727. Blame not that which is necessary. 
 
 1728. Good motives following good ideas are the 
 proper exchanges of the mind. 
 
 1729. The mind can sometimes afford an example in 
 which life is deficient. 
 
 1730. Evil laws or intentions have a long tether. 
 
 1731. Folly is ever a bad exchange ; if we give with- 
 out reason we support, in some measure, folly. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 69 
 
 1732. Content and discontent are two travellers of 
 time which often change places in the journey. 
 
 1733. He who lives without reason is a worse enemy 
 to himself than others can be. 
 
 1734. Wit retreats (does not exist) with mystery, 
 
 1735. Let light ever rise. 
 
 1736. Good intentions to be improved. 
 
 1737. Our very ignorance of the cause of many things 
 brings forth more knowledge than if we were cognizant 
 of nature's works. 
 
 1738. Muddy waters are ever shallow. 
 
 1739. There are no ideas without branches. 
 
 1740. A just conviction of excellence is a just proof 
 of it. 
 
 1741. Instinct may draw towards destruction when 
 sense averts it. 
 
 1742. Often are efforts the food of hope. 
 
 1743. Reason well followed is nature well followed. 
 
 1744. Hope is often reason. 
 
 1745. Destruction exists only when reason and hope 
 are lost. 
 
 1746. It would be as possible to complete every idea 
 as to write every book. 
 
 1747. Truth is the best employment. 
 
 1748. The duty of life is more necessary than the 
 amusements of it. 
 
 1749. To economise justly is to labour well ; and 
 labour is followed by rest and safety. 
 
 1750. No true rest without safety. 
 
 1751. The soul is the invisible magnet of all things. 
 
 1752. The feelings and prejudices of man are 
 generally the touchstones by which things are tried. 
 
 1753. With some people truth (to be accepted) must 
 flatter. 
 
 1754. A great name sometimes throws a cloak over 
 folly. 
 
 1755. The knowledge of the origin causes us often to 
 value less. 
 
 1756. Disdain is scorn if unsupported by reason and 
 truth. 
 
 1757. Profit seldom tires. 
 
 1758. The first knowledge of wisdom is the birth of it. 
 
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 1759. A good intention is a firm support. 
 
 1760. Good intention is often good wisdom. 
 
 1761. Of two gifts choose that the possible abuse of 
 which is farthest from danger. 
 
 1762. Time well spent is good fortune. 
 
 1763. We deny hope when we surrender its effects to 
 others. 
 
 1764. He who hath contemned pleasure hath received 
 much. 
 
 1765. We cannot be virtuous if our wishes are not 
 conformable to justice and truth. 
 
 1766. A good knowledge of things past is an armour 
 against events to come. 
 
 1767. Wisdom is an endless legacy ; the more we take 
 from it the more we may. 
 
 1768. The body is the creditor of the soul, and must 
 repay for its ills to Heaven. 
 
 1769. The trust in God the strong foundation of the 
 soul. 
 
 1770. If we followed necessity truly many ills would 
 be unknown. 
 
 1771. Success is ever a bad tree when evil is the root. 
 
 1772. To excel previous efforts is possible while life 
 remains. 
 
 1773. Happy when the absence of evils make them 
 impossible. 
 
 1774. Plain features ornament the greatest place. 
 
 1775. If thou hast achieved excellence once the 
 remembrance of it may prove a surety to future excel- 
 lence. 
 
 1776. From God the soul receives the highest inspira- 
 tions ; from the soul springs the greatest we can effect 
 ourselves. 
 
 1777. Advice is often built on interest. 
 
 1778. Interest is a spur to many actions. 
 
 1779. Skill often springs from successful means. 
 
 1780. Allurements are seldom known in disguises. 
 
 1781. Severity is often the shield of economy. 
 
 1782. Augment thy fortune in peace and justice. 
 
 1783. To practise truth is the attestation of it. 
 
 1784. Let thy soul be the ground wherein all good 
 thoughts (seeds to good actions) are sown. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 71 
 
 1785 The practise and fruits of vice are sufficient to 
 deter. 
 
 1786. True knowledge is the mirror of nature. 
 
 1787. Pride seeks for many meanings. 
 
 1788. Friendship when indiscriminate is as a chain 
 stretched too far. 
 
 1739. Truth is fertile in just actions. 
 
 1790. We can never be unjust towards evil. 
 
 1791. A good intention is seldom (entirely) lost. 
 
 1792. Best in thought best in worth. 
 
 1793. Pride will undermine the best intentions. 
 
 1794. Nature requires support in all things. 
 
 1795. To attain unto some reward may be called the 
 necessity of most actions. 
 
 1796. Knowledge is a security of credit. 
 
 1797. Often does prosperity favour the envied. 
 
 1798. Envy generally admires and abhors out of 
 proportion. 
 
 1799. Ideas are the pulses of the soul. 
 
 1800. We disgrace wisdom when we would strive to 
 support it with folly. 
 
 1801. Use the best means with the best sanctioned by 
 justice. 
 
 1802. Endeavours are good only when the intention is. 
 
 1803. Bight is the armour of the mind. 
 
 1804. Self sees with double vision. 
 
 1805. Just desires are mostly just securities. 
 
 1806. Where pleasure is a visitor virtue is ever about 
 to retire. 
 
 1807. Supported by virtue, discern no ill but to avoid 
 it. 
 
 1808. Ills are ever present to avoid. 
 
 1809. Let us blame but when example is necessary 
 (for us and others). 
 
 1810. That judgment which blames is often most 
 deserving of it. 
 
 1811. False judgments are ill "presents." 
 
 1812. Duty does not live where evil threatens. 
 
 1813. Learn to strengthen the uses of life. 
 
 1814. Impart knowledge with prudence and discern- 
 ment. 
 
 1815. Favour simplicity, for we cannot present it. 
 
72 MAXIMS. 
 
 1816. Need is a prudent dispenser of possessions. 
 
 1817. Youth is often a scoffer at destiny. 
 
 1818. Eeward and punishment both end and com- 
 mence at the same gate. 
 
 1819. Solitude rightly understood is a sphere of golden 
 thoughts. 
 
 1820. Learned in truth practise in truth (and it is 
 sealed with justice). 
 
 1821. Consider good actions and thoughts as debts to 
 Heaven. 
 
 1822. Often is the ear the debtor of the eye. 
 
 1823. Be absent in an evil not evil to us if not used 
 towards or by us. 
 
 1824. 111 is not a friend to right judgments. 
 
 1825. The best state is not the exercise or prosperity 
 of the body, but where the soul is active in virtue towards 
 God. 
 
 1826. This world satisfies the just but as a state 
 leading to future excellence. 
 
 1827. The designs of evil have always some flaws. 
 
 1828. Guard against strangers until you know 
 them, for thy best efforts will sometimes incur their 
 enmity. 
 
 1829. He who makes for himself many wants requires 
 many supports. 
 
 1830. The mind sometimes creates wants, and with 
 justice. 
 
 1831. We may sometimes embellish the approaches 
 of truth, but we can never improve the mansion. 
 
 1832. The love of philosophy germinates ideas in the 
 soul as the body affords ideas to satisfy its wants. 
 
 1833. The body which divests itself of its material 
 nature gives essence of futurity. 
 
 1834. Anger (related to disdain) is oftentimes the food 
 of envy. 
 
 1835. Knowledge is the great spirit of enquiry. 
 
 1836. The despair of the best is frequently an arm 
 against it. 
 
 1837. Vices leave not where they are supported. 
 
 1838. Forsake unjust things. 
 
 1839. Good principles attract the just. 
 
 1840. Good principle is the magnet of prudence. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 73 
 
 1841. Let good principle, like a current, still carry 
 thee forward. 
 
 1842. Seek not after the alliance of discord. 
 
 1843. Discord is a road ever leading from happiness. 
 
 1844. Good endeavours are wholesome fruits. 
 
 1845. Where diligence grows idleness is weakened. 
 
 1846. Fear evils only where virtue is in danger. 
 
 1847. Be ever absent from the evil will of man. 
 
 1848. Endeavour rightly weighed is often the gate of 
 success. 
 
 1849. We may be frequently just with severity, and 
 unjust' by a too easy compliance. 
 
 1850. He who would rightly judge, let the first judg- 
 ment be himself. 
 
 1851. Be first in the intention of good and some 
 success will assuredly be thine. 
 
 1852. When we lessen fortune's chances we increase 
 the ills. 
 
 1853. Do not invent faults, but subdue them. 
 
 1854. Often has humility triumphed over pride and 
 power. 
 
 1855. Do not scorn too soon scorn should be ever slow. 
 
 1856. Man owes much to his ignorance of many 
 things. 
 
 1857. Knowledge is not gained well where discontent 
 is the result. 
 
 1858. Our joys differ as our wants. 
 
 1859. An evil interest is often the cause of an evil 
 example. 
 
 1860. Consider evil ever as bad handiwork. 
 
 1861. Evil method is the tree of bad fruits. 
 
 1862. Evil is a bad builder. 
 
 1863. Ignorance is often the blindness of the soul. 
 
 1864. Ignorance has blunted feelings. 
 
 1865. True knowledge consists not so much in the 
 knowledge of evils as in the antidote to them. 
 
 1866. Wherever we are virtue or evil rests. 
 
 1867. A difference of words often leads to many roads : 
 sometimes to many good and bad fortunes. 
 
 1868. Truth will ever conquer the contempt of it. 
 
 1869. Be wise in good time ; fortune may be made 
 attentive if we are wise to note it. 
 
74 MAXIMS. 
 
 1870. Dependence ever turns to approach when thy 
 fortune is diminished. 
 
 1871. Have a guard against strange faces as you 
 would against strange money. 
 
 1872. A good result must ever follow reason. 
 
 1873. Be wise in thy wanderings, and thy rest shall 
 produce fruit. 
 
 1874. Sow thy best designs in Heaven. 
 
 1875. Wise men sometimes meet accidents, but fools 
 court them. 
 
 1876. Misfortune often proves a bitter medicine to 
 "friends." 
 
 1877. Discern also other minds when you trust to 
 your own. 
 
 1878. Let virtue ever be allied to knowledge. 
 
 1879. Reward has bright eyes. 
 
 1880. The best things do not always require the longest 
 study. 
 
 1881. Knowledge is the material of the mind. 
 
 1882. Be cautious in those things that may be abused. 
 
 1888. Let caution be ever necessary. 
 
 1884. All things are well or evil as they improve our 
 mind. 
 
 1885. Often do we wander to seek for proofs when 
 they are close at hand. 
 
 1886. Time is the great debtor ; all \ve have or 
 expect we owe to time. 
 
 1887. Exceptions thrive where generalities (totally) 
 condemn. 
 
 1888. It is good sometimes to be infirm where power 
 thrives. 
 
 1889. Deceit often lurks in view of argument. 
 
 1890. Diligence contemns folly. 
 
 1891. If we improve our own at the expense of 
 another it is often the first step towards defeat. 
 
 1892. The pursuit of the right in all things is some- 
 times a difficult road. 
 
 1893. The adherence to truth and justice never con- 
 fines any true liberty. 
 
 1894. Drunkenness is often a scheme of enmity. 
 ^ 1895. There is no peace in those things the jnst mind 
 disapproves. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 75 
 
 189G. Duty requires us to be firm in the pursuit of 
 right. 
 
 1897. To be just towards all brings more justice to us 
 than evil. 
 
 1898. Time ill-spent is as the lapse of time. 
 
 1899. All ages meet in time. 2. Time is young and 
 old. 8. Time presents with nothing. 
 
 1900. Anxiety is the labour of hope. 
 
 1901. Knowledge rightly gained will rightly inherit. 
 
 1902. If we are not prudent ourselves, often is the 
 law prudent for us. 
 
 1903. Charity is the true golden bond of liberty. 
 
 1904. Calumny admits proof but to controvert it. 
 
 1905. In whatever place we are virtue is still 
 practicable. 
 
 1906. Eiches seldom reach the utmost goal of the 
 desires. 
 
 1907. Never let wrath be lasting ; we are often active 
 in useless things, and idle when good might be effected. 
 
 1908. We trust to evils when we trust to enemies. 
 
 1909. Profit is generally the foreground of craft. 
 
 1910. Frugality in the present gives profit in the 
 future. 
 
 1911. If we spend in the best time we may gain in 
 the worst. 
 
 1912. Ever look forward to future excellence (as to 
 necessity . 
 
 1913. Choose those things (if possible) the abuse of 
 which hurts least. 
 
 1914. Conquer the intention of evil, and you will 
 subdue it. 
 
 1915. Let thy greatest recompense be the favour of 
 Heaven. 
 
 1916. Discord is the breath of anger. 
 
 1917. Justice is the best kindness. 
 
 1918. Death is even with all destinies. 
 
 1919. Conjectures are but half ideas. 
 
 1920. We employ ourselves best when we employ 
 wisdom. 
 
 1921. Wicked men may sometimes fancy they have 
 conquered simple folly, whereas they are only tested by 
 it. 
 
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 1922. Be ever fertile in good. 
 
 1923. Let reason make just motives for ideas, and 
 then she will best order them. 
 
 1924. Few notions are there where wisdom does not 
 either praise or blame. 
 
 1925. Wisdom inter-leavens all, either with light or 
 dark clouds. 
 
 1926. Could all ideas be followed to the end, few 
 actions would begin ; a proper division of ideas and 
 actions is (often) the road to success in life. 
 
 1927. Let just desires be good commendation. 
 
 1928. Interest looks over many faults. 
 
 1929. Interest is an indulgent task-master. 
 
 1930. He deserves to be fortune's favourite who can 
 use her gifts with an even hand. 
 
 1931. Egotism lives by favour. 
 
 1932. A rule is not straight to every hand that uses it. 
 
 1933. Ideas are like portraits (or views) if we 
 examine too closely or too far the image is indistinct. 
 
 1934. Ignorance and prejudice are the bitters of the 
 mind. 
 
 1935. If we trust evils, we trust shadows. 
 
 1936. Make life a legacy to thought and wisdom. 
 
 1937. Words are sometimes strong witnesses ; be wary, 
 at times, of words, and thou shalt be wary of thy wealth. 
 
 1938. Mortality ever aims at all. 
 
 1939. Manners are often the breathings of fortune. 
 
 1940. Present labour makes future labour easier. 
 
 1941. Hope is the beacon which points to prosperity. 
 
 1942. Fortune hath many roads. 
 
 1943. Labour grows with age and lessens with good 
 will. 
 
 1944. Wealth continually changed is ever ready to 
 come or go. 
 
 1945. He knows well who knows all his possessions. 
 
 1946. Courtesy is a pleasant picture to look upon, but 
 often of no worth when we test it. 
 
 1947. Fame sometimes diminish follies. 
 
 1948. The temptations of folly to a wise man are but 
 as beggar's gifts (to the wealthy). 
 
 1949. A rich man may ever command a present. 
 
 1950. Often is gaiety the false heart of despair. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 77 
 
 1951. He who wishes his fortune not to be diminished 
 must refuse many applications ; the more ' friends ' one 
 has, the more must he refuse to aid them. 
 
 1952. There is (plainly speaking) never a necessity 
 for anger (evil, defamation, etc.) ; when there is a just 
 cause for anger does it not then cease to be an evil ? 
 
 1953. Truth hurts no man, unless he takes it to his 
 hurt. 
 
 1954. To be content in all places, we would frequently 
 have to discord hope. 
 
 1955. Many "friends" are generally poor consolations. 
 
 1956. Promises are like fortune's shadows. 
 
 1957. Let caution ever watch where proofs come not. 
 
 1958. The power to oblige increases the obligation. 
 
 1959. Let thy ends ever be just towards Heaven. 
 
 1960. Wherever we move to wisdom still has gifts 
 to bestow. 
 
 1961. He who can perform much with few materials 
 will generally excel where means are equal. 
 
 1962. For protection we must often meet danger 
 half \v ay. 
 
 1963. It is the wrong consideration of our faults which 
 often produce them. 
 
 1964. True knowledge knows much care. 
 
 1965. Pains bestowed are often labours gained. 
 
 1966. Prosperity ill-used will often lead to devious 
 tracks. 
 
 1967. It is not necessary to speak ill for justification. 
 
 1968. Malice condemns its speech. 
 
 1969. Where the general rule is good, let the excep- 
 tions weigh not. 
 
 1970. The words of malice are destroyed as they are 
 uttered. 
 
 1971. Evil is the plague of the soul. 
 
 1972. Friends mostly test other's prosperity by their 
 own ; all wealth is but comparison of wealth. 
 
 1973. Envy has little discrimination (injustice). 
 
 1974. Envy sometimes wanders to the cause and not 
 the person. 
 
 1975. Reasons are the pillars of the mind. 
 
 1976. Just to mankind just to the ideas and know- 
 ledge we have of man. 
 
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 1977. Education and time may improve and augment 
 the uses of truth, but cannot alter the structure, which is 
 ever the same as proceeding from the Eternal. 
 
 1978. Let civility be ever a just exchange. 
 
 1979. Do not that which you would shrink from 
 being examined by. 
 
 1980. The less tastes are inured the better ; but let 
 them submit to order. 
 
 1981. That which worthless passes, and leaves no 
 fruit, is like the shadow of evil. 
 
 1982. Eead to weigh but not always weigh. 
 
 1983. We are unjust with time if we do not wisely use 
 it. 
 
 1984. Enthusiasm is often the beacon to much labour ! 
 
 1985. Friendly sentiments cost little, yet they some- 
 times improve the purse. 
 
 1986. Maintain dignity of thought in others ; but let 
 it not be always transparent, lest it may in time be allied 
 with contempt. 
 
 1987. That state must be insecure where wealth 
 commands duty. 
 
 1988. Great events are sometimes concluded with as 
 much ease as insignificant ones. 
 
 1989. Be careful of small concerns, which may often 
 command thee to great ones. 
 
 1990. What is less to the people is often greater to 
 thyself. 
 
 1991. The heart is the best case of memory. 
 
 1992. He who creates one good idea may sometimes 
 command many words in others. 
 
 1993. Satisfaction is a good tenant of hope. 
 
 1994. A general level produces most favour. 
 
 1995. Where the hopes are even, let the conduct be 
 level. 
 
 1996. Anger is often followed by reasonable thoughts, 
 like true friends that show the error of it. 
 
 1997. Thoughts, like mirrors, reflect the evils of many 
 actions ; well is he who is guided by them to justice and 
 truth. 
 
 1998. Do not produce clouds where calmness justly 
 rests. 
 
 1999. Misfortune darkens the joy of true friends. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 79 
 
 2000. Many befriend us to whom we think ourselves 
 tinder no obligation. 
 
 2001. To give up hope is to give up some of the 
 best motives to success. 
 
 2002. We must sometimes be bold when worth is at 
 stake. 
 
 2003. The just man may own to some transgressions, 
 but not to any merit in them, for there can be no merit 
 in those things that are of evil. 
 
 2004. Evil has no (true) heart. 
 
 2005. Abstain from much grief as thou would' st from 
 satiety, for satiety is ever repugnant to good. 
 
 2006. The truly valiant heart will be no less brave 
 when it relents at the sight of misery. 
 
 2007. Never let it be thy worldly interest to injure. 
 
 2008. Dullness often mends an offence. 
 
 2009. Be absent from rage as thou would' st from 
 trouble to thyself. 
 
 2010. Excess is ever possible to those who love 
 pleasure. 
 
 2011. Forgetfulness is idle memory. 
 
 2012. The strongest may have need of more strength. 
 
 2013. Just ideas are printed on all minds, but not 
 read by all. 
 
 2014. Success makes real obstacles seem to disappear. 
 
 2015. Be never cheerful at the misery of others, for 
 accident respects no person. 
 
 2016. Self-interest is often the food of anger. 
 
 2017. Proof of good things will bear repetition. 
 
 2018. Solitude is the companionship of nature. 
 
 2019. Forgetfulness of obligations is memory's debt. 
 
 2020. Error's arguments are often armoured against 
 itself. 
 
 2021. The fancy of ill minds often embroils the soul. 
 
 2022. Let justice be the mansion of duty. 
 
 2023. Duty is the nourishment of justice. 
 
 2024. 111 words often employ those who are uncon- 
 cerned with profit. 
 
 2025. Wit never stands on its proper foundation when 
 it neglects good nature. 
 
 2026. Contrition is received as a debt in Heaven. 
 
 2027. Value does not always jingle. 
 
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 2028. A bad action is often an overweight which 
 makes the building fall. 
 
 2029. Admiration is often a monitor of good results. 
 
 2030. Fear not ever when thon art just before God. 
 
 2031. When reasons abound in truth the cause is 
 easy. 
 
 2032. Situation gives many hints (or thoughts). 
 
 2033. Memory makes wisdom our own. 
 
 2034. Words may ever rise on words. 
 
 2035. Books, like words, increase sometimes in value 
 by repetition. 
 
 2036. Ideas support the senses. 
 
 2037. Wl s ci om is a glorious legacy to all (if we will 
 only grasp it). 
 
 2038. If we examine the foundation of error we will 
 ever find it ill grounded. 
 
 2039. Sense (or reason) is the only real fruit of words. 
 
 2040. Wisdom is the body and essence of all things. 
 
 2041. Evil and virtue first pass each other at the gate 
 of death. 
 
 2042. All pleasures and evils have their first gate in 
 death. 
 
 2043. Life is but a field which we soon travel over, 
 and the vale of eternity presents itself. 
 
 2044. Love to live but for virtuous things. 
 
 2045. Be more prudent the more prosperity favours 
 thee. 
 
 2046. Death is a certain creditor that is never ignored. 
 
 2047. Let cheerfulness and wit ever spring from sense. 
 
 2048. Most have age and time for support, when it 
 would be best to be understood by all. 
 
 2049. Science does not acknowledge prestige. 
 
 2050. What is well ordered may have a just prospect 
 of stability. 
 
 2051. Order is the framer of great things. 
 
 2052. The actions of good men are of themselves 
 rewards. 
 
 2053. Virtue rewards often in work, and not in rest. 
 
 2054. Virtue is discrimination, and has conscience for 
 its friend. 
 
 2055. Evil ideas crossed lash themselves. 
 
 2056. Truth is the essence of all good. 
 
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 2057. Let not too much confidence in others betray 
 your own trust. 
 
 2058. Pity is (often) an eloquent advocate. 
 
 2059. When our just interests do not clash we may 
 be justly neutral. 
 
 2060. Peace only exists where virtue is action. 
 
 2061. Honesty is the worker of truth. 
 
 2062. Let promises be conditional where the merit is 
 not known. 
 
 2063. Just promises are the bonds of the mind. 
 
 2064. Approved merit and honesty require few con- 
 ditions. 
 
 2065. We live with diminished virtue if evil has one 
 entrance. 
 
 2066. Prodigality is a false mirror of liberty. 
 
 2067. Conscience is an enduring monitor. 
 
 2068. Be prepared to see hope often obstructed, and 
 " favour M prosperous. 
 
 2069. All hopes should meet in the just completion of 
 life. 
 
 2070. Impute not improbability for error in others. 
 
 2071. Manners are often the assumptions of the form, 
 but not the essentials of morality. 
 
 2072. Misfortune to one is not always so to another. 
 
 2073. That which draws much (praise) from men's 
 minds must either possess great or little merit. 
 
 2074. Decrease the distance (for in the distance is 
 sometimes the quantity) of thy wishes. 
 
 2075. Keward often returns to the hand that gives it. 
 
 2076. What is new is not always true. 
 
 2077. Intention of good is the model, and action the 
 work, of truth. 
 
 2078. Blest with over-care, we often die unknown. 
 
 2079. Folly is a beacon of ill success. 
 
 2080. Much change little change. 
 
 2081. Expectation which is satisfied in part increases 
 as it travels. 
 
 2082. The use of things to us is generally as we use 
 them. 
 
 2083. Self-denial is the mind's economy. 
 
 2084. Folly is ever a mark for bad fortune. 
 
 2085. If we neglect conscience most evils are possible. 
 
82 MAXIMS. 
 
 2086. It is not prudent to rely upon one who con- 
 siders long between duty and desire. 
 
 2087. How often does pleasure tempt profit to pursue 
 ill fortune ! 
 
 2088. Manner is a frame unfinished if not supported 
 by probity. 
 
 2089. Amusement and pleasure support many who 
 contemn them. 
 
 2090. Be partial to your just interests. 
 
 2091. Praise without judgment is no praise. 
 
 2092. Truth is the substance of the soul. 
 
 2093. He who looks for great power searches for 
 perils. 
 
 2094. A recent hero is twice a hero. 
 
 2095. Late victors are the favourites of glory. 
 
 2096. The greatest hopes and aims are sometimes set 
 at nought for the possession of a phantom. 
 
 2097. Time is an impartial distributor. 
 
 2098. Let conscience be well " armoured," and it 
 will not retreat from any danger. 
 
 2099. What is scornful to some is merit to others. 
 
 2100. The mind rebukes more often than does the 
 tongue ; but when the voice stamps it, only let it be 
 regard. 
 
 2101. Observe propriety in all things, and it will 
 render ill-will useless. 
 
 2102. 111 feelings never change the mind on right. 
 
 2103. Good reason deserves to be acted upon. 
 
 2104. Never let virtue be idle with thee. 
 
 2105. Think in good and you will act in good. 
 
 2106. Truth is existence. 
 
 2107. The greatest contrast in men consists in their 
 wisdom. 
 
 2108. Errors should be only remembered for their 
 refutation. 
 
 2109. The test of excellence is the parent of dispu- 
 tation. 
 
 2110. The proof of words are sometimes the effect of 
 them on others ; words are not proofs without effect. 
 
 2111. Pride increases itself, when hope (or fortune) 
 flatters only. 
 
 2112. Eules hold even with failures. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 83 
 
 2113. Branches often oyerweigh the root (of things). 
 
 2114. Interest gives a large interpretation. 
 
 2115. Few " strong feelings" are there that are not 
 allied to weak judgments. 
 
 2116. He manages well who can make time ever 
 favourable to his (just) ends. 
 
 2117. He works double who works well in the 
 beginning. 
 
 2118. Some consolations cover all defeats. 
 
 2119. Without consolation is to be without reason. 
 
 2120. Interest has generally the largest share in 
 human actions. 
 
 2121. Property sometimes mends ill manners. 
 
 2122. Where many minds contend many evils mend. 
 
 2123. Often does worldly success travel under the- 
 arch. 
 
 2124. The greater the value the lesser the chance. 
 
 2125. Kiches often require fortune to interpret them. 
 
 2126. Order varies in different stations. 
 
 2127. True prudence will seek much, yet be contented 
 with little. 
 
 2128. Thought is the great line of all distinctions. 
 
 2129. Folly often thinks itself bound by folly. 
 
 2130. Folly is flattered by its taste in the contempt 
 of wisdom. 
 
 2131. Opinions, like weapons, are often made for 
 defence as well as offence. 
 
 2132. We subdue evil when we ally ourselves to virtue. 
 
 2133. The steps of power are often steps on sand. 
 
 2134. Any words may be a guide for wisdom if 
 ranked with it. 
 
 2135. Beware of those promises which do not injure 
 if unredeemed. 
 
 2136. Interest in one evil will increase others. 
 
 2137. Strength is a potent argument with the wicked. 
 
 2138. Profit is ever pleasant. 
 
 2139. Contented looks are not certain monitors. 
 
 2140. Manner is the first introduction, but hardest to 
 discipline. 
 
 2141. Interest gives bad evidence. 
 
 2142. Fashion often forms spurious principles, and 
 use binds evil to them. 
 
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 2143. Use is often the dark cloud of evil. 
 
 2144. Knowledge submits much to gain much. 
 
 2145. Assiduity is the breath of success. 
 
 2146. The real test of support is in the continuance 
 of it. 
 
 2147. That which is not profitable to be known in 
 reason is not of reason. 
 
 2148. The strongest causes are not always seen. 
 
 2149. Exert not thy fullest power at all times, for it is 
 frequently best to seem ignorant both of success and 
 failure. 
 
 2150. There are reasonable restrictions on all plea- 
 sures. 
 
 2151. He diminishes the value of his success who 
 seems too conscious of it. 
 
 2152. We give danger direction over us when we 
 neglect prudence. 
 
 2153. That which is not formed of truth is of bad 
 texture. 
 
 2154. Danger and safety are like cross swords of life. 
 
 2155. Liberty is in chains where force breathes in 
 safety. 
 
 2156. Let eloquence build ever with propriety. 
 
 2157. Reason owns many combatants who dispute 
 her intention. 
 
 2158. The ties of interest, like distant views, are 
 generally weaker the farther off. 
 
 2159. Do not always wear thy prosperity as a habit. 
 
 2160. We are not fit to receive virtue if we do not 
 grant it. 
 
 2161. Proper time is your best attendant. 
 
 2162. He has the best profession who can trade 
 profitably with just ideas. 
 
 2163. Work in wisdom, for it does not lose. 
 
 2164. Let it be thy duty never to justify others' ill 
 contempt of thee. 
 2165. Wisdom is the never-failing granary of thought. 
 
 2166. Wisdom is a vale before all ; if only travelled 
 on, fruits may be gathered. 
 
 2167. Justify thine own resolves by just action to 
 others. 
 
 2168. Every manner has an index. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 85 
 
 2169. Prudence shuns design of ill. 
 
 2170. Have few or no scruples when knowledge and 
 justice are proved. 
 
 2171. Be just ever in the discovery of justice. 
 
 2172. Often are faculties the gifts of practice and 
 patience. 
 
 2173. Practise levels science and art. 
 
 2174. Often does science owe much to its difficulties. 
 
 2175. Science and art are both servitors to nature. 
 
 2176. Ornament is often a medium for custom. 
 
 2177. Necessity often has a brow of despair. 
 
 2178. Wisdom is the foundation of all good history 
 and experience. 
 
 2179. True compassion ever leans on wisdom. 
 
 2180. What is most essential is often most uncom- 
 promising. 
 
 2181. Some things the heart reads first. 
 
 2182. Caution is the heart's prudence. 
 
 2183. Hope that fades weakens the foundation of it. 
 
 2184. Happy is it that all feelings are so powerless to 
 effect ill. 
 
 2185. The greatest trespasser on justice still wishes it 
 done to him. 
 
 2186. Unprofitable age sometimes use the gifts of 
 wisdom, as a child may use gold without a proper 
 knowledge of its value. 
 
 2187. Youth is but an insecure custodian. 
 
 2188. If discontent were to be confined virtue would 
 be more free. 
 
 2189. Discontent is sometimes a cloak to perfidy. 
 
 2190. If perfidy does not always follow discontent, it 
 often opens the door to it. 
 
 2191. Sound is knowledge where only sense is sup- 
 pressed. 
 
 2192. His conduct is the best that needs no repara- 
 tion. 
 
 2193. Riches would hurt not if our wants increased 
 not. 
 
 2194. To direct anger at one whom you know not 
 may be taking a nail out of your shoe. 
 
 2195. The choice of civility is easier than the obliga- 
 tion. 
 
86 MAXIMS. 
 
 219G. What may be just in comparison may not be 
 in design. 
 
 2197. Praise increases where the excellence is attained 
 but by few. 
 
 2198. Let not conscience be controlled by interest. 
 
 2199. It is well when conscience and interest meet. 
 
 2200. What is in our possession is often of more 
 worth than that we seek. 
 
 2201. Knowledge is sometimes responsibility. 
 
 2202. It is easier to collect numbers than to follow. 
 
 2203. A nation that relies solely on defence would 
 seem to contemn a hope of victory. 
 
 2204. To contemn science is sometimes to contemn 
 power. 
 
 2205. Fairness gives favour in receiving it. 
 
 2206. Let justice ever be supported, for, if it be not, 
 distrust is possible. 
 
 2207. We may well discard that scorn which does 
 not weaken. 
 
 2208. A good acceptance is sometimes a reward. 
 
 2209. Consider thy troubles so as to gain from them. 
 
 2210. Fortune may flatter us, but she herself is not 
 to be flattered. 
 
 2211. Occasions sometimes suit the absent. 
 
 2212. How far from necessity are the principal themes 
 of conversation ! 
 
 2213. Keproof is sometimes a trap for applause. 
 
 2214. Destiny is the essence of worldly powers. 
 
 2215. Cunning is sometimes the dupe instead of the 
 love of folly. 
 
 2216. Good wishes often bind wisdom. 
 
 2217. Moments well spent ever occur to give proofs. 
 
 2218. Enchantment is sometimes the support of hope. 
 
 2219. Good direction will give more than one road. 
 
 2220. Good aims often lead to future possessions. 
 
 2221. Scorn is a bad capital. 
 
 2222. Wants, like birds, flutter till they have found a 
 place of rest. 
 
 2223. If wants flatter the feelings, they are apt to 
 follow thee on all journeys. 
 
 2224. Eevoke not a good intention ; invoke no evil 
 one. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 87 
 
 2225. Suffer for truth rather than thrive for evil. 
 
 2226. Early danger is sometimes a protection against 
 future ill. 
 
 2227. Time will at last reward a good resolution. 
 
 2228. Think of good things but to practise them. 
 
 2229. The intention is the dividing line of virtue and 
 vice. 
 
 2230. Let thy intentions be just in every end. 
 
 2231. Judge not with many eyes seeing but with one. 
 
 2232. Circumstances are like bladders, which increase 
 and decrease. 
 
 2233. Envy has many watchwords. 
 
 2234. Impudence often springs from profit. 
 
 2235. Profit has often an ill eye. 
 
 ' 2236. The friendship of a cunning man is treachery to 
 some. 
 
 2237. Amity should seek the knowledge of good-will. 
 
 2238. Let events never find thee without a preparation. 
 
 2239. War is a severe doctor; but it sometimes heals 
 grievances. 
 
 2240. Consider oftentimes life as a guard against evil. 
 
 2241. Let not knowledge be a flatterer of thy feelings, 
 but a necessity. 
 
 2242. Truth is the jewel of all knowledge. 
 
 2243. If conscience directs the truth, the event may 
 well linger. 
 
 2244. Pride is often but the dress of place. 
 
 2245. Men will seldom be just till they are humble. 
 
 2246. Success is but poor when wishes do not sanction 
 it. 
 
 2247. Make not gratitude a servitor. 
 
 2248. Deceit often lurks in " bounty." 
 
 2249. He has much knowledge indeed who knows all 
 adverse things. 
 
 2250. A great example is often t}Tanny. 
 
 2251. Humility should be the ground of courtesy. 
 
 2252. Discord is sometimes a spice of life. 
 
 2253. Economy often makes uncertain hope gratified. 
 
 2254. Diligence does not dwell with despair. 
 
 2255. Enemies sometimes enlarge the deeds of great- 
 ness. 
 
 2256. The just man will wait for virtue's sake. 
 
88 MAXIMS. 
 
 2257. Profit increases expectation. 
 
 2258. If the present time is well used the future may 
 be the essence of it. 
 
 2259. Great in good deeds the best of happiness. 
 
 2260. What cannot be tested with virtue can never be 
 of enduring worth. 
 
 2261. Difference is the soul of politics. 
 
 2262. Obligations sometimes bend ill humour. 
 
 2263. Interest will often give a favourable interpreta- 
 tion to ill usage. 
 
 2264. Extremes are seldom just. 
 
 2265. Folly is often the sport of worse folly. 
 
 2266. Satisfaction is sometimes the resting-place of 
 contempt. 
 
 2267. Trust not ignorance to ignorance (or dishonesty). 
 
 2268. Fools generally judge others by their own 
 station. 
 
 2269. Independence and worth may well afford to 
 smile at pride and contempt. 
 
 2270. Trouble hurts not him who can wait with 
 profit. 
 
 2271. Hasty friendships sometimes make hasty trials. 
 
 2272. Ignore no just expenses when interest assents. 
 
 2273. ^-He who disclaims pride should also disclaim 
 contempt. 
 
 2274. Happiness is the soul in peace. 
 
 2275. Gold often commends the unworthy. 
 
 2276. To seek is often to accept evil. 
 
 2277. A sure labour is better than an uneasy rest. 
 
 2278. Gratitude does not dwell with despair. 
 
 2279. Pleasure is never a necessity. 
 
 2280. Good hopes are the bulwarks of fortune. 
 
 2281. Silence gives no proposals ; we can only be 
 silent when we have achieved wealth. 
 
 2282. True repentance is the anguish of virtue. 
 
 2283. Preparations too long delayed create obstacles. 
 
 2284. Force without reason often acts against itself. 
 
 2285. Seek not that which profits not. 
 
 2286. The best alliance is that of virtue. 
 
 2287. If we could'act as strongly without as with neces- 
 sity we would overcome many obstacles. 
 
 2288. Gain has ever a ready ear. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 89 
 
 2289. Time often changes manner with power and 
 place. 
 
 2290. Fatigue subdues, at length, interest. 
 
 2291. 111 nature is a bad possession. 
 
 2292. Pride of place is not always worth of place. 
 
 2293. Pride seldom convinces. 
 
 2294. Desires are partial. 
 
 2295. Truth is the bond of success and peace of mind, 
 
 2296. The care of truth is lasting truth. 
 
 2297. Scorn is an unjust arbitrator. 
 
 2298. Scorn should not weigh in prospects. 
 
 2299. Secure are those benefits which are just. 
 
 2300. Great increase of prosperity sometimes weakens 
 the supports of it. 
 
 2301. Double guard that which increases in evil. 
 
 2302. To fail in some things is accession of fortune. 
 
 2303. What we gain in time we often lose in ease. 
 
 2304. We are generally either near or far from danger. 
 
 2305. We must trust to our own experience when 
 no other avails us. 
 
 2306. The deeds of the just increase in worth. 
 
 2307. Power mends conduct in others. 
 
 2308. He who gives orders should be responsible for 
 them. 
 
 2309. Be true to thy truthful yearnings. 
 
 2310. There are many things which we deem neces- 
 sary that might be abstained from with profit. 
 
 2311. True peace does not consist so much in rest as 
 to labour in safety. 
 
 2312. Let severity be a friend to moderation. 
 
 2313. Envy often uses power for argument. 
 
 2314. Keason often overturns experience. 
 
 2315. Experience does not always prosper. 
 
 2316. The best securities often weigh most heavily 
 upon us. 
 
 2317. Kiches sometimes advance when " friends" 
 retreat. 
 
 2318. Let previous knowledge ever weigh in a neigh- 
 bour's regard. 
 
 2319. Near friends are the purse's rent. 
 
 2320. Civility often becomes a troublesome creditor. 
 
 2321. There is always work for wisdom. 
 
90 MAXIMS. 
 
 2822. Order lives in chaos, as charms in difficulty. 
 
 2323. Sympathies are ever current. 
 
 2824. The bulwarks of reason support the soul. 
 
 2825. Just support is the right arm of hope. 
 
 2326. Often is duplicity contemned, and rewarded. 
 
 2827. Let virtue be the monitor of silence. 
 
 2328. Increase gives essence often of excellence. 
 
 2329. A fancy gained is often a fancy sealed. 
 
 2330. What is beyond necessity is fancy. 
 
 2331. Do not trust worth to fair promises only. 
 
 2332. If the law cannot compel justice we are ever at 
 the mercy of one who gives us a promise. 
 
 2333. Adversity is a living test of experience. 
 
 2334. Renown often requires rest, but does not always 
 live in repose. 
 
 2335. Eepose is no security without strength. 
 
 2336. Justice in the present deals with the future. 
 
 2337. Favour with power is ever bearable. 
 
 2338. Posterity is the great court of judgment. 
 
 2339. Increasing numbers lessens the probability of 
 future impartiality. 
 
 2340. Gratitude is one of the best responses of 
 obligation. 
 
 2341. Pleasure is oftentimes the web of the eye. 
 
 2342. The senses the- judgment court of the mind. 
 
 2343. There is a process in the knowledge of all things. 
 
 2344. We can never be just too often. 
 
 2345. If we cannot at all times do the best, let us not 
 do the worst. 
 
 2346. He prospers best who is favoured by virtue. 
 
 2347. Worldly happiness is like a golden palace, but 
 with no entrance. 
 
 2348. There are countless necessities in all things. 
 
 2349. Evil takes many forms and colours. 
 
 2350. If you speak not you cannot speak evil. 
 
 2351. Order embarks with security. 
 
 2352. First fancies often possess the seed but not the 
 fruit. 
 
 2853. The greatest praise is imder value if knowledge 
 does not sanction it. 
 
 2354. Prejudice is the glass through which most 
 things are seen and judged. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 91 
 
 2355. Just deeds to all should be the bonds of 
 security. 
 
 2356. Dignity should be the just pride of all mankind, 
 
 2357. Divine truth the standard of all knowledge. 
 
 2358. Success has many eyes. 
 
 2359. We must endure when the law cannot. 
 
 2360. Smother all enmity in the root. 
 
 2361. If the tree of evil grows, give thou no help to 
 plant it. 
 
 2362. Strength devoted to evil is lost. 
 
 2363. Keep far from the necessity of compliments. 
 
 2364. Words frequently surrender power to the 
 opposer. 
 
 2365. True content rests on justice. 
 
 2366. Discord is often born of trifles. 
 
 2367. With good things the use often increases. 
 
 2368. Wisdom is never idle ; it presents itself which- 
 ever way we look. 
 
 2369. Wisdom intermingles in all things. 
 
 2370. Store the mind with rules of justice. 
 
 2371. True ease fortifies the mind against evil. 
 
 2372. To all things a just comprehension. 
 
 2373. Be not humbled without justice. 
 
 2374. Let enmity never walk with fame. 
 
 2375. Let enmity be ever distant. 
 
 2376. Wisdom may be consulted in every action. 
 
 2377. We are likely to take up false positions when 
 we abandon just ones. 
 
 2378. Skill must be provided for to provide. 
 
 2379. Assert only just sentiments. 
 
 2380. A just delivery is often a boon to many. 
 
 2381. Habit sometimes gives strength to trade. 
 
 2382. We give when we take interest. 
 
 2383. The present heightens the colour. 
 
 2384. Myriads will at length take up least room. 
 
 2385. Memory is lost when it remembers evil. 
 
 2386. Late rest is often late loss. 
 
 2387. Death ends at last the fear of it. 
 
 2388. Dissimulation is sometimes a mask which 
 closes the wearer's eyes. 
 
 2389. Let not folly ever instruct. 
 
 2390. Folly never balances truly. 
 
92 MAXIMS. 
 
 2391. If we limit our desires to a certain time fortune 
 will settle some way either for or against vis. 
 
 2392. Fame makes time itself sometimes a worker 
 for thee. 
 
 2393. Comparisons nearly differ as much as do the 
 objects. 
 
 2394. Work when you can with profit, not when you 
 might, for work that is left to the future is work undone. 
 
 2395. Keserve often preserves from folly. 
 
 2396. Dangerous companions are often worse than 
 open enemies. 
 
 2397. We may with reason expect the least in that 
 which is left to fortune to decide. 
 
 2398. A talent is often a reserve of safety. 
 
 2399. Poor and rich may deal equally in promises if 
 unknown. 
 
 2400. Knowledge often wears a mask. 
 
 2401. There would be no gratitude if there were no 
 profit. 
 
 2402. A good maxim is the salt of knowledge. 
 
 2403. A good maxim will flavour many things. 
 
 2404. He can only trespass who can repair the injury 
 with profit 
 
 2405. Honesty of purpose will generally control the 
 obstacles it may meet with. 
 
 2406. The rich man will often have to travel far to 
 know his faults. 
 
 2407. Flattery diminishes when common danger 
 threatens. 
 
 2408. There is no place where wisdom may not be 
 applicable. 
 
 2409. Ideas change in some degree with every visit. 
 
 2410. Prudence asks no ill. 
 
 2411. Health will generally attend thee well if thou 
 attend it well. 
 
 2412. It is some degree of folly even to witness pride. 
 
 2413. Evil is never a true recompense. 
 
 2414. Let content ever be the fruit of abstinence. 
 
 2415. He who is required to study out of proportion 
 hath lost some time. 
 
 2416. Death favours none ; and yet men by their 
 conduct would often seem to think so. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 98 
 
 2417. Many things that are infinite, if pursued, may 
 still be unprofitable. 
 
 2418. Concessions to prudence are gains. 
 
 2419. Let truth and honesty ever be the springs of 
 conduct. 
 
 2420. Prudence is the design of justice. 
 
 2421. Excellence is comparative ; but profit is a great 
 test of the success of it. 
 
 2422. Industry that walks slow often gains the 
 summit first. 
 
 2423. We have not to seek far for obstacles. 
 
 2424. The strongest probability is often the surest 
 fortune. 
 
 2425. Probability is the mask of fortune. 
 
 2426. Success is oftentimes a mountain of observation. 
 
 2427. Life is a bounteous legacy. 
 
 2428. Wisdom's problems are ever being worked out. 
 
 2429. We may at any time make a contract with 
 prudence. 
 
 2430. We must generally endeavour to meet success 
 half way in order to attain it. 
 
 2431. Perseverance does not always reach the goal of 
 hope. 
 
 2432. What is always present is often least times 
 thought of. 
 
 2433. Position is sometimes a chair of affliction. 
 
 2434. The ground of fact produces most fancy. 
 
 2435. Give ever through the hands of hope. 
 
 2436. It is net impossible to be prudent in the greatest 
 afflictions. 
 
 2437. Be wary in affliction. 
 
 2438. Pride has generally impudence for its ally. 
 
 2439. Pride is often a bait to respect. 
 
 2440. Firmness with prudence will strengthen action. 
 
 2441. He who makes obstacles at every step will not 
 surmount them. 
 
 2442. Wise is he who can in no way be affected with 
 the manner of others. 
 
 2443. Present delay is often but an index of w r orth. 
 
 2444. Unconfined liberty often tempts control. 
 
 2445. Justice should be a necessity of existence. 
 
 2446. Discord ever commands the ear of folly. 
 
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 2447. Wisdom often confers with duty. 
 
 2448. The knowledge of the use often diminishes the 
 interest. 
 
 2449. Let right ever reward with right. 
 
 2450. Truth makes all things beautiful. 
 
 2451. Let thy will be just, and thy labour will be so. 
 
 2452. Even virtue, to be of worth, must be enduring. 
 
 2453. The precepts of God shall decide above all 
 things. 
 
 2454. We should ever approach holy things with 
 humility. 
 
 2455. Confidence is a hasty reasoner. 
 
 2456. Not to repeat is sometimes to acknowledge. 
 
 2457. Some degree of prosperity is necessary to a 
 tranquil life. 
 
 2458. Hopes sometimes justify present ]oss. 
 
 2459. Never justify contempt by anger. 
 
 2460. The greatest power is not always for the leader. 
 
 2461. Truth rides a long road. 
 
 2462. Victory flies from equality. 
 
 2463. Gold gathers more than a shovel. 
 
 2464. Where a test is practicable do not neglect it. 
 
 2465. What is useless singly may, by repetition and 
 quantity, support millions. 
 
 2466. Exchange is often the balance of evils. 
 
 2467. Without sickness or sorrow wait till to-morrow. 
 
 2468. Money spent smiles with some. 
 
 2469. Money spent withdraws its charm. 
 
 2470. An unjust action is a spring of falsehood. 
 
 2471. Power and mind do not always go together. 
 
 2472. Envy wealth for its power of good, not ill. 
 
 2473. Grief makes even pleasures single. 
 
 2474. Let ill be ever far from hope. 
 
 2475. Wishes make most exceptions. 
 
 2476. The warnings wisdom gives are gains. 
 
 2477. Money creates often the want of it. 
 
 2478. Neglect of pride often repays it best. 
 
 2479. The manner, and that alone, is oftentimes the 
 obligation. 
 
 2480. Manners and pride ever need a witness. 
 
 2481. Profit, like applause, generally comes at the 
 close. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 95 
 
 2482. Tastes often strengthen with the neglect of 
 " tastes." 
 
 2483. Let just profit ever be the ally of concession. 
 
 2484. Grief does not always discern the best gifts. 
 
 2485. Kemembrance of good is of itself a safeguard. 
 
 2486. Knowledge and truth create most wants. 
 
 2487. Unknown is unlocked for. 
 
 2488. Dependence often leans on former scorn. 
 
 2489. Ostentation frequently levels distinction, for its 
 sake. 
 
 2490. Profit is often a friend to pleasure. 
 
 2491. To make the best use of things is always to 
 abstain from the abuse of them. 
 
 2492. Wisdom may have a home in any place. 
 
 2493. Distance sometimes improves friendship. 
 
 2494. Interest comprehends well. 
 
 2495. Liberality often owes much to caution. 
 
 2496. Govern thy best designs with prudence. 
 
 2497. Sequels ever found if searched for. 
 
 2498. Projects which are just are capable, for what 
 Is capable in reason is just. 
 
 2499. Wisdom is oftentimes greatest in ill success. 
 
 2500. Success has often a bad memory. 
 
 2501. 111 fortune makes often good caution. 
 
 2502. Wealth has many weaknesses. 
 
 2503. The prudent will must be obeyed if we would 
 either attain success or secure it. 
 
 2504. Where two " necessaries " of life do not 
 mutually support, one is unnecessary. 
 
 2505. A " friend " who needs expenses is not a 
 necessary one. 
 
 2506. Admiration is often an awkward labour. 
 
 2507. Friends, like obstacles to the sight, should be 
 held at a certain distance. 
 
 2508. Example increases with number. 
 
 2509. The just allow no reprisals. 
 
 2510. Compassion sometimes makes pain a favour. 
 
 2511. Vanity is sometimes the builder of probity. 
 
 2512. Favours soon forgotten take long to remember. 
 
 2513. Fortune is sometime or other at her utmost. 
 
 2514. Look still to the substance in thy best designs. 
 
 2515. Anger doubles work and time. 
 
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 2516. Give to no injustice. 
 
 2517. Lend to probity rather than to acquaintances. 
 
 2518. 111 possessions are worth no security. 
 
 2519. Accept nothing that may diminish wisdom and 
 prudence. 
 
 2520. All things are bounded by all. 
 
 2521. He who makes nourishment an amusement 
 does not use it rightly. 
 
 2522. The forest is nature's habitation. 
 
 2523. Concern for others sometimes turns on our- 
 selves. 
 
 2524. Misfortune is the heir of retrospection. 
 
 2525. Calamities ever increase with knowledge. 
 
 2526. A troublesome fortune is best where evil 
 lessens. 
 
 2527. Prudence gives mostly the best welcome. 
 
 2528. Custom is sometimes an easier road than 
 experience. 
 
 2529. Hasty purchases often make lasting griefs. 
 
 2530. Independence thrives on thrift. 
 
 2531. He who gives aid also gives responsibility. 
 
 2532. Let virtuous intention be the vanguard of all 
 thy actions. 
 
 2533. Success is the brightest colour. 
 
 2534. We generally boast least of necessities. 
 
 2535. Evil supports are not lasting. 
 
 2536. Credit not (with) despair. 
 
 2537. Fact is the market of profit. 
 
 2538. True manners seek neither good nor bad 
 fortune. 
 
 2539. A fit habitation is the delight of justice. 
 
 2540. Pleasure, at times, blinds the eye of gain. 
 
 2541. Were all wishes gratified few would there be to 
 enjoy them. 
 
 2542. Wisdom gives, but asks no favour. 
 
 2543. Let there be no exultation without wisdom. 
 
 2544. Keep close bound by virtue. 
 
 2545. He who sees good sees farthest. 
 
 2546. Amusement often drowns even the voice of 
 profit. 
 
 2547. Neglect not the future in anything. 
 
 2548. Evil has easy problems to solve. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 97 
 
 2549. Good hope is often a sign of fortune. 
 
 2550. Profit visits not where sellers outnumber. 
 
 2551. When science cures money is well spent. 
 
 2552. Cures are better than coins. 
 
 2553. Till we lose a possession thought is often silent 
 about it. 
 
 2554. Ideas are oftentimes the soul's signals. 
 
 2555. Unknown mystery is often the most certain. 
 
 2556. Words are often the bonds of honour. 
 
 2557. Without aid without fortune. 
 
 2558. Learn no evils from hope of worth. 
 
 2559. 'Tis hard to choose in mysteries. 
 
 2560. Absence makes hasty work. 
 
 2561. We often know best in ignorance. 
 
 2562. Pride often depends for support on humility. 
 
 2563. Means often make difficulties vanish. 
 
 2564. Refusals are fairer than falsehood. 
 
 2565. Industry is often a book of fortune. 
 
 2566. Ill-success makes even worth diminish in some 
 eyes. 
 
 2567. Pleasures are often born of custom. 
 
 2568. Ingratitude springs (often) from profit. 
 
 2569. Knowledge ought to walk with proof. 
 
 2570. Wishes labour long. 
 
 2571. " Branch words" sometimes get the first place. 
 
 2572. Intentions often die with words. 
 
 2573. Promptness often conquers cunning. 
 
 2574. Many fancy ideas as they do clothes by their 
 brightness. 
 
 2575. That which has no use hath required many. 
 
 2576. Profit can well spare introductions. 
 
 2577. The dispenser of fortune does not always feel it. 
 
 2578. Wish only for righteous things ; all others are 
 losses. 
 
 2579. Wealth is but the pensioner of time. 
 
 2580. Money hath two handles. 
 
 2581. Contempt often springs from inability. 
 
 2582. Position often makes difference of fortune. 
 
 2583. Fortune sometimes subsists on distrust. 
 
 2584. Evils come and go for naught. 
 
 2585. Chance is but a poor possession. 
 
 2586. Good-will gives good deeds. 
 
98 MAXIMS. 
 
 2587. Families make often fame. 
 2588. Kindness should be the true bond of esteem. 
 2589. Forgetfulness of evils oft surmount them. 
 2590. Enmity often entails labour. 
 2591. Time well employed is better than insecure 
 riches. 
 
 2592. Ill-will is often the sequel of favour. 
 2593. True generosity is a foe to folly. 
 2594. Honour is seldom impartial. 
 2595. Facts surround all things. 
 
 2596. Society and solitude balance each other in 
 obstacles. 
 
 2597. Decision is a link of destiny. 
 2598. Eestriction is the tutor of propriety. 
 2599. The sympathy of the unjust lessens with means. 
 2600. Hope is often born of fear. 
 2601. The proof of success generally depends on 
 matter. 
 
 2602. There is a bounty on good deeds. 
 2603. Destiny smiles at ill-placed force. 
 2604. Proportion seldom regulates all wishes. 
 2605. Words never wear. 
 
 2606. Hope sometimes opens the book of misery. 2. 
 Hope sometimes knocks at misery's gate. 
 
 2607. Sense finds a difficult entrance where fashion 
 bars the way. 
 
 2608. Economy vaults with hope. 
 
 2609. Welcome, like waves, ever rise and fall. 
 
 2610. He who speaks first often speaks last. 
 
 2611. Ill-will likes no distribution of goods. 
 
 2612. Capability is judgment. 
 
 2613. Praise diminishes with ignorance and number. 
 
 2614. Misfortune ever conies too soon. 
 
 2615. Endeavours are not safe investments. 
 
 2616. Economy must ba often deaf. 
 
 2617. Be deaf to the ear of pride. 
 
 2618. There is no gratitude in force. 
 
 2619. Fear is ever near sadness. 
 
 2620. Good advice errs not with choice. 
 
 2621. Wit ever resides near injustice. 
 
 2622. Truth has a large area. 
 
 2623. Choices are often beacons to contempt. 
 
99 
 _ &^ 
 
 2624. Models are often invisible monitors. 
 
 2625. Fortune has more baits offered her than she 
 cares to bite at. 
 
 2626. Reason will stop success which only seems so. 
 
 2627. Poverty is never complete. 
 
 2628. Regrets are often heirs of memory. 2. Regrets 
 are often regretted. 
 
 2629. Nature intended originally for every living thing 
 to thrive. 
 
 2630. Chance often delights to trip the sure-footed. 
 
 2631. Chance is a bad friend for help. 
 
 2632. He is a poor friend who has always to show his 
 face. 
 
 2633. Strong words have often weak intentions. 
 
 2634. Judgment carries through the longest road. 
 
 2635. Dangers make fools diligent. 
 
 2636. He who always excuses himself deals in 
 fiction. 
 
 2637. Gifts are often obstructions. 
 
 2638. The law hath still too many favours. 
 
 2639. Poverty is seldom impartial with interest. 
 
 2640. The memory of right often makes a grateful 
 man. 
 
 2641. If interest could be speedily awarded there 
 would be many to attain excellence. 
 
 2642. Passion is ever a debtor to reason. 
 
 2643. Death never loses. 
 
 2644. Fire goes with time. 
 
 2645. Favour gladdens with success. 
 
 2646. Gilded is not always got. 
 
 2647. Humility sometimes rests on favour. 
 
 2648. Friends are sometimes the best when they do 
 not always make themselves necessary. 
 
 2649. True civility sees but few faults. 
 
 2650. Let not accomplishments precede necessities. 
 
 2651. A good time is often the best cause. 
 
 2652. He who certifies to all ills may have to be 
 charged with the knowledge of some. 
 
 2653. Acceptance is often far from favour. 
 
 2654. Flattery often sees the best hopes. 
 
 2655. Anger is the worst kind of anxiety. 
 
 2656. The greatest value is often the unsoundest seat. 
 
100 MAXIMS. 
 
 2657. Often are trials better borne than is the thought 
 of them. 
 
 2658. Sorrow is certain with time. 
 
 2659. A good rest makes a good renewal. 
 
 2660. Wants give many welcomes. 
 
 2661. Welcomes oft repeated lose strength. 
 
 2662. Hold the captain by his own rope. 
 
 2663. Wisdom's problems are ever present. 
 
 2664. Paid assistance is readiest. 
 
 2665. Singularity is sometimes good profit. 
 
 2666. Often when most excellent least wanted. 
 
 2667. We seldom see servility in a rich man. 
 
 2668. Pleasure is never a just balance. 
 
 2669. Experience does not always redeem folly ; for 
 folly never reasons justly. 
 
 2670. Many maxims are there made for comforts. 
 
 2671. Dross often comes with wealth, but does not 
 leave with it. 
 
 2672. Wisdom is the guard of reason. 
 
 2673. Deceit sometimes gives value for ill intention. 
 
 2674. The debts of peace are often obstructions for 
 its continuance. 
 
 2675. Talent brought to market is often left there. 
 
 2676. Gold brightens even fancy. 
 
 2677. The greatest excellence has often but short 
 limits. 
 
 2678. When gain retreats, interest may keep it 
 company. 
 
 2679. Imperfections crowd on the guilty. 
 
 2680. If known in all places often to your cost. 
 
 2681. Every mouth makes a new taste of facts. 
 
 2682. Instruction often seals against the intent. 
 
 2683. Futurity is the vision of truth. 
 
 2684. Be just to all; more so to those who wish 
 justice, but cannot procure it. 
 2685. Never let injustice tarry. 
 
 2686. Often is destruction encased with present 
 safety. 
 
 2687. Satisfaction dwells not with anger. 
 2688. Anger deals not with necessity. 
 2689. Evils are ever in excess. 
 2690. Effort is the good of hope. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 101 
 
 2691. The best friend does not always show the best 
 mouth. 
 
 2692. Be friendly to thy best sentiments. 
 2693. General respect should be everywhere engaged. 
 2694. Manners display often against the wish. 
 2695. He who looks for praise does not forget also 
 profit. 
 
 2696. Admiration seeks monitors of gladness. 
 2697. Fancy may endure contempt, and be above 
 showing it. 
 
 2698. Fame ever gets satisfaction for its name, if not 
 help. 
 
 2699. We may bow to a beggar and be no loser. 
 2700. Models are easy where fame precedes. 
 2701. Admiration increases with the distance of con- 
 trast. 
 
 2702. "What is successful in the single test may not be 
 in the abstract. 
 
 2703. All authority lost is not the best equality. 
 2704. If we follow not with justice we do not befriend. 
 2705. Applause is often entrapped by fame. 
 2706. Gold is a sponge for sorrow. 
 2707. A reasonable hope is a good index. 
 2708. Speech is labour if against will or interest. 
 2709. Good desires are lamps of virtue. 
 2710. Let caution ever accompany increase of riches. 
 2711. First intentions are often strongest. 
 2712. Attention is the door to experience. 
 2713. Circumspection is the armour of prudence. 
 2714. We must be on our guard with civility when 
 allied with interest. 
 
 2715. Intentions unconfirmed are but as problems 
 unsolved. 
 
 2716. We must know aims to judge rightly actions. 
 2717. Know no " friend " or acquaintance who makes 
 dress the standard of worth. 
 
 2718. Conversation on one side only is a rebuke to 
 equality. 2. Equality is the ground whereon conversation 
 sits best. 
 
 2719. To be inclined to wisdom is to excel. 
 2720. What begins in despair often ends in hope. 
 2721. Without hope destinies would be just. 
 
102 MAXIMS. 
 
 2722. Knowledge should ever be the lamp of virtue. 
 
 2723. Break not with proven supports. 
 
 2724. Examinations lighten when proofs precede. 
 
 2725. Justice in the present is often a key of future 
 excellence. 
 
 2726. Receptions are full of change, and seldom 
 balanced with equality. 
 
 2727. Prosperity reaped without aid diminishes the 
 want of friends. 
 
 2728. A true friend will censure another, even if it is 
 against his interest. 
 
 2729. It is the use, not possession, which gives true 
 worth of things. 
 
 2780. We would never frown at morality if we knew 
 the good results springing from it. 
 
 2731. Hope is often the road leading to interest. 
 
 2732. Culture is oftentimes a preserver of safety. 
 
 2733. When good order follows it would seem to 
 attest the justice of a war. 
 
 2734. Wisdom, though often deemed hasty, is gene- 
 rally lasting in its effects. 
 
 2735. Danger is oftentimes the ordeal of ambition. 
 
 2736. Time and events control the actions of the 
 world. 
 
 2737. Infinity is a globe which encloses all things. 
 
 2738. It is the thought that justifies the labour. 
 
 2739. If space is equal to time, it may (?) increase also 
 with it. 
 
 2740. Wisdom sanctions haste and delay for good. 
 
 2741. Successes are but problems to the wise. 
 
 2742. Eternity is a circle which surrounds all things. 
 
 2743. It is a duty wa owe to others to preserve 
 properly our own possessions. 
 
 2744. Ideas of unknown things should be ever founded 
 on humility. 
 
 2745. Life without success in it is a blank page of 
 ambition. 
 
 2746. A holy wish hath effected all things. 
 
 2747. There is little interest where knowledge is a 
 blank. 
 
 2748. Secrets only as they affect us are of worth. 
 
 2749. Best hopes work best. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 103 
 
 2750. We often receive on hearsay that which requires 
 labour to know properly. 
 
 2751. Maxims live often without a portrait. 2. 
 Maxims are dumb monitors. 
 
 2752. Fame, like bees, ever seeks a place to settle. 
 
 2753. It is hard to change wishes if profit resides. 
 
 2754. Time only gives that which will wear. 
 
 2755. Time creates much wishing. 
 
 2756. Learn to acknowledge justice against thy 
 interests. 
 
 2757. Interest is not always a sure countenance. 
 
 2758. Prudence exists with moderation. 
 
 2759. Moderation has fewer labours for the future. 
 
 2760. Be indolent only with wrath. 
 
 2761. Prosperity should be housed with caution. 
 
 2762. Let caution travel never alone. 
 
 2763. Never give up virtue for vice's phantoms. 
 
 2764. The truth, and not the style ; gold is the same 
 in any pocket. 
 
 2765. Seek no favour if it incurs promises not to be 
 met with justice. 
 
 2766. It may be best to be first in that which is 
 inevitable. 
 
 2767. Reason has many echoes on the road 
 
 2768. First draughts generally strengthen most. 
 
 2769. Success produces sometimes more hope. 
 
 2770. Gaming is ever time ill spent, and gains 
 unearned. 
 
 2771. Frugality is the heir to much possessions. 
 
 2772. Thought is at last the grave of all. 
 
 2773. Learning sometimes lessens deeds. 
 
 2774. Saved expenses (in the present) often save 
 future honour. 
 
 2775. Ever despise excesses. 
 
 2776. Much power given generally gives a bad recom- 
 pense. 
 
 2777. Give not power to walk alone. 
 
 2778. Need asks few choices. 
 
 2779. Tastes are chains often forged by ourselves. 
 
 2780. Practice is the essence of hope. 
 
 2781. An important motive is a wide collection. 
 
 2782. Fame is strengthened by industry. 
 
104 MAXIMS. 
 
 2783. Talent knows no station. 
 
 2784. Learning is oftentimes the cushion of indolence. 
 
 2785. Patronage is often led by folly. 
 
 2786. If we sit still events will often seeni to hasten. 
 
 2787. Bitter often pays best. 
 
 2788. Facts are the best potions for contempt. 
 
 2789. Civility measures well without arithmetic. 
 
 2790. Plumes not secured will fall to the ground. 
 
 2791. Want is oftentimes want of prudence. 
 
 2792. He is wise who acknowledges truth in his 
 sufferings. 
 
 2793. Ease will not end with ease. 
 
 2794. Hope ever makes the present unhappy. 
 
 2795. Kest often comes when we wish it not. 
 
 2796. Luxury is the chimera of fashion. 
 
 2797. Let envy ever stay shortest. 
 
 2798. Hearing is often the food of support. 
 
 2799. Propriety is often a foe to talent. 
 
 2800. Unless we command evil we cannot serve good. 
 
 2801. Motives well built rest on sure interests. 
 
 2802. Seek not favour with unjust hope. 
 
 2803. Time is the silent arm of strength. 
 
 2804. Care lessens no discretion. 
 
 2805. Death regards all with calm and watchful eye. 
 
 2806. Folly is the great tempter of death. 
 
 2807. Tuition shall go well with great favour. 
 
 2808. Ideas are the semblances of the soul vouch- 
 safed us. 
 
 2809. Often is life but a waiting for effects come or 
 ceased. 
 
 2810. Good thought is the best food of the soul. 
 
 2811. Examine not with presumption things unre- 
 solved by man. 
 
 2812. The past o'erclouds the ignorant. 
 
 2813. Commendation without knowledge seldom 
 measures well. 
 
 2814. The armour of evil is no safety. 
 
 2815. Like steel, we may bend, but should not break 
 with labours. 
 
 2816. He who labours hard shall labour short. 
 
 2817. Keason may be likened to a circle of ideas 
 which meet and support the soul. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 105 
 
 2818. Infancy is the golden light of the soul. 
 
 2819. Begin and end in peace and truth with all. 
 
 2820. Be a friend to nothing sinister. 
 
 2821. Wisdom approved in talent is well-approved 
 ambition. 
 
 2822. Announcing evils often lessens favour. 
 
 2823. Difference in the beginning enlarges with time. 
 
 2824. Offences are seldom measured justly by interests. 
 
 2825. Models against custom often bring forth wrath. 
 
 2826. Custom is oftentimes the real despot. 
 
 2827. Motives are the hardest workers. 
 
 2828. Power is often the cloak of manner. 
 
 2829. How often is pride a mirror ! 
 
 2830. Money and fame laugh at pride. 
 
 2831. Good precepts are born anew with the memory 
 of them. 
 
 2832. Pride is the ground where evil sets its seed. 
 
 2833. Falsehood is a contribution to the store of evil. 
 
 2834. Bounty smothers even danger at times. 
 
 2835. Let labour ever endow with truth. 
 
 2836. To be " favourably" known, we must be gene- 
 rally so to our great cost. 
 
 2837. There is little rivalry where there is impossi- 
 bility. 
 
 2838. Enthusiasm surrenders its power (often) to 
 others, what might be kept for itself. 
 
 2839. Hope often springs from the amusements of the 
 fancy. 
 
 2840. The one-half cf good requires the foundation of 
 it. 
 
 2841. Ask not misery to mourn with increase of it. 
 
 2842. When interest leavens hope it is not to be 
 trusted. 
 
 2843. Time frowns at last upon definitions. 
 
 2844. Our regard does not alter facts in themselves. 
 
 2845. Those ideas are good which commend without 
 fruits. 
 
 2846. Necessaries require no ornament. 
 
 2847. It is frequently man's own pride that makes 
 him angry at that of others. 
 
 2848. Facts (if not fate) are often the warnings of it. 
 
 2849. Standards, like tastes, change with time. 
 
10 MAXIMS. 
 
 2850. Right, with many, is like a uniform adopted 
 for a time. 
 
 2851. Anxiety should ever dwell with caution. 
 2852. The soul's awe smiles at death. 
 2853. Reason controlled by power is never just. 
 2854. Great to Heaven, less to all evils. 
 2855. Let justice guard the absent. 
 2856. Strong opinions guard not prudence. 
 2857. There is never an obligation in envy. 
 2858. Promises without security are half broken. 
 2859. When good has to admit questions it seldom 
 increases with them. 
 
 2860. To defray righteous debts is the soundest duty 
 of business. 
 
 2861. Trust him not whose will is in excess. 
 2862. The sound of evil should be as a trumpet to- 
 warn thee off. 
 
 2863. He that lends to another without security will 
 often be tied to ill manners. 
 
 2864. Desire and hope are the keys of many actions. 
 2865. When the law is ignorant it will invent reasons. 
 2866. Golden favour is often bought with dross. 
 2867. If a cause depends not on just reason, to follow 
 it is unjust. 
 
 2868. More is generally lost for phantoms than for 
 facts. 
 
 2869. Misfortune of others beam but on the guilty. 
 2870. Disappointment ever resides near. 
 2871. Let justice ever find an entrance. 
 2872. Inattention is a sieve of knowledge. 
 2873. He that is twice "welcome" is not always 
 doubly welcome. 
 
 2874. Let propriety be ever the monitor of excess. 
 2875. True justice permits no abuse of it. 
 2876. There is little respect without knowledge. 
 2877. Security is the test of peace. 
 2878. Folly seldom lives without increasing. 
 2879. Evil is not a just inheritance. 
 2880. When once proven at your cost, let the future 
 be a guard. 
 
 2881. Indolence is the truant of time. 
 
 2882. Many thoughts are dropped in pleasure's ocean. 
 
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 2883. Surrender not just fears. 
 
 2884. Fancy is the soul's pageant. 
 
 2885. Risk often lights on luck. 
 
 2886. Invention makes often more difficulties in the 
 present, but lessens them in the future. 
 
 2887. Place and time often change boldness to 
 timidity. 
 
 2888. Authors often make profit of that which others 
 would lose. 
 
 2889. Right with might is the most glorious inheri- 
 tance. 
 
 2890. If necessities were strictly followed the greatest 
 boldness would often be incompetent. 
 
 2891. Honour untested is equal. 
 
 2892. A people's good should be the world's respect. 
 
 2893. Chance is the only (present) truth of fortune. 
 2. Chance is of fortune's ill favour. 
 
 2894. A maxim which fails in the practice may still 
 be a shield for ignorance. 
 
 2895. He that scorns ignorance shall often scorn 
 power. 
 
 2896. Success and failure in part is better than excess 
 of either. 
 
 2897. Wisdom hath still a place in all times. 
 
 2898. What so pleasant as wisdom's reward ? 
 
 2899. Moderation will sometimes grasp double 
 positions. 
 
 2900. He that writes much and freely, his words will 
 often be a friend to him. 
 
 2901. True fervour is only for Divine things. 
 
 2902. To Heaven all is due. 
 
 2903. Satisfaction only dwells with virtue. 
 
 2904. Use life well, and death will beam at the close 
 of it. 
 
 2905. Spurious welcome is that which is given to 
 place and not to worth. 
 
 2906. If we are favoured we are often indebted. 
 
 2907. There is no control against Heaven. 
 
 2908. It is as easy to be successful sometimes as to fail. 
 
 2909. He who profits only by the success of others, 
 will not profit singly. 2. Like one who has escaped from 
 a wreck is he who prospers singly. 
 
108 MAXIMS. 
 
 2910. Justice should control tedious animosities. 
 
 2911. Anger ill requires a problem. 
 
 2912. Flatterers generally see through a glass of hope. 
 
 2913. Endurance of labours is often the test of them. 
 
 2914. Sloth aims back at itself. 
 
 2915. Prudence lives with the just. 
 
 2916. Accept if faith concurs 
 
 2917. Follow him not who hates just things. 
 
 2918. Eight of punishment must own a just cause. 
 
 2919. Evil has a short lease. 
 
 2920. Charity is the radiance of the heart. 
 
 2921. Sympathy is strong when it secures habit. 
 
 2922. Sanction gains with truth. 
 
 2923. Necessity requires no slander. 
 
 2924. Truth ever beams from the eternal. 
 
 2925. To please the unjust is to have erred. 
 
 2926. True justice asks no concession from wisdom. 
 
 2927. How often is "friendship " but a habit ! 
 
 2928. Joy that runs before us is ever uncertain. 
 
 2929. Mercy is a branch of charity. 
 
 2930. Let us be careful of acquisitions in wisdom as 
 in wealth. 
 
 2931. Wisdom is the breath of eternal things. 
 
 2932. Interest is a cunning tyrant. 
 
 2933. That which is not preserved hastens to its close. 
 
 2934. The worst services are those of evil. 
 
 2935. Where evils are absent some content is ever 
 possible. 
 
 2936. Contentment is a large field where we may 
 always reap. 
 
 2937. Consent to good is the best signature. 
 
 2938. Who loves justice is a debtor to it. 
 
 2939. Abandon not a friend in truth. 
 
 2940. Evils bear gratitude as poisons fruit. 
 
 2941. Against truth and reason ever insecure. 
 
 2942. Ability sometimes measures weakness for 
 strength. 
 
 2943. Let the intention be as the gild of truth. 
 
 2944. Success sometimes corrects the errors of the 
 indolent. 
 
 2945. Time is generally favourable to good designs 
 of it. 
 
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 2946. Questions should exist but on sufferance. 
 
 2947. Wisdom is the safe journey of the soul. 
 
 2948. Evils die not where justice mends not. 
 
 2949. Seek no unjust countenance. 
 
 2950. Reason is the frame of wisdom. 
 
 2951. Faults are often debts which we set to others' cost. 
 
 2952. Trust should ever own a relation to good. 
 
 2953. Be justly assured of right, then follow. 
 
 2954. Repetition is the tutor of memory. 
 
 2955. The greater the importance the lesser the 
 memory. 
 
 2956. Meditation is the book we may never lose. 
 
 2957. The poorest invention is often fertile in ill. 
 
 2958. He that contemns prudence oft surrenders with- 
 out cause. 
 
 2959. What is best known often wears a mask. 
 
 2960. Order is the corner-stone of a nation's success. 
 
 2961. Order bears best the frowns of destiny. 
 
 2962. Folly ever stands on doubt. 
 
 2963. Facts bear well with arguments. 
 
 2964. Use (invention's test) and art are still near 
 neighbours. 
 
 2965. Fancy with virtue is a just legacy of the soul. 
 
 2966. To maintain a difficult position is often as 
 hazardous as to attain thereunto. 
 
 2967. Memory sets many seals. 
 
 2968. The door of success is often closed to hope. 
 
 2969. Useless words are like many cases for a poor 
 jewel. 
 
 2970. Just principles are the pillars of the soul. 
 
 2971. After ills prudence joins. 
 
 2972. Prudence suggests no indolence. 
 
 2973. What is first a taste only is frequently followed 
 by arduous labour and industry. 
 
 2974. Supports accompany all things. 
 
 2975. Profit often follows rich folly. 
 
 2976. Let consideration ever meet novelty. 
 
 2977. Evils vanish where justice sets her seal. 
 
 2978. Hasty men frequently confirm obstacles when 
 they think they are but met. 
 
 2979. It is the manner in which we consider ill that 
 often makes it. 
 
110 MAXIMS. 
 
 2980. Speak and act so that ill report may not 
 hold. 
 
 2981. A reward may be ill received, and yet be a 
 compliment ; but a compliment ill received is seldom a 
 reward. 
 
 2982. Where justice but gleams, this is a sufficient 
 introduction to candour. 
 
 2983. Contention in good will improve the faculties. 
 
 2984. Use makes ease ensue. 
 
 2985. When insolence flourishes patience must be on 
 one side. 
 
 2986. Time is sometimes better than a debt paid. 
 
 2987. He that stops suddenly in success has met 
 either an enemy or thinks he knows some. 
 
 2988. What is unknown is often a bait for subtlety. 
 
 2989. As we cannot live without some degree of 
 wisdom, let us acknowledge it in all things. 
 
 2990. He who hath all proofs hath not all rewards. 
 
 2991. What is not done in good time often makes 
 double labour. 
 
 2992. It is not always wise to improve difficulties with 
 the hope of favours. 
 
 2993. We should not abide by the decision of envy. 
 
 2994. True respect for ourselves makes us ever a 
 debtor to others. 
 
 2995. Errors need many masks. 
 
 2996. What seems at first an ill reception is frequently 
 a hidden bounty. 
 
 2997. Gratitude should dwell with reward. 
 
 2998. 111 content often undermines generosity. 
 
 2999. Work in justice rather than rest in ill. 
 
 3000. Evil ever lessens where wisdom gains. 
 
 3001. When truth speaks it is confident. 
 
 3002. Digression is sometimes commendable. 
 
 3003. Justice hath an eternal destiny. 
 
 3004. Wisdom is bounty which may be always 
 obtained. 
 
 3005. We have achieved the best when we have not 
 exceeded. 
 
 3006. The farther from reason the farther in doubt. 
 
 3007. The best success is that approved by wisdom. 
 
 3008. Much endeavour meets many cares. 
 
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 3009. Let thy mind still applaud where wisdom 
 sanctions. 
 
 3010. Power sometimes lessens our former wishes. 
 
 3011. What is often worthless singly is not so when 
 allied. 
 
 3012. Interest often requires discovery. 
 
 3013. Things are useless to us if they are impossible. 
 
 3014. He discovers well who observes few wants. 
 
 3015. There is no power in the world without 
 weakness. 
 
 3016. Often do our preparations for avoiding scorn 
 meet it. 
 
 3017. Every man has an eternal spring of wisdom in 
 his soul did he but seek it. 
 
 3018. Art often gives success in art. 
 
 3019. Truth to God is greater than all other truth. 
 
 3020. Prudence sometimes lives with the recollection 
 of ill. 
 
 3021. Friendship is the magnet of the just. 
 
 3022. The fear of evil is a good antidote. 
 
 3023. First with scorn is often first with reward. 
 
 3024. Eight saves much labour. 
 
 3025. Let thy best friend be thy mind. 
 
 3026. He who despairs shall not come singly. 
 
 3027. The eye travels farthest. 
 
 3028. The greatest confidences are worthless at times. 
 
 3029. What cannot be repeated leans to failure. 
 
 3030. He who loses time (often) employs his enemy. 
 
 3031. Knowledge may open many doors, but does not 
 always meet with welcome. 
 
 3032. We may as well lose gain as time. 
 
 3033. Where there is rivalry success is not all 
 secured. 
 
 3034. Curiosity is often feigned first and felt after- 
 wards. 
 
 3035. Great names are often heavy weights. 
 
 3036. Keason loves the best designs of life. 
 
 3037. To endeavour to prove everything is to be a 
 searcher only. 
 
 3038. Justice is often called upon to decide perfection 
 (or that which cannot be decided). 
 
 3039. Power in States is their last standard. 
 
112 MAXIMS. 
 
 3040. When right resides with thee, happiness is never 
 impossible. 
 
 3041. The eye is often called upon to judge (more- 
 than the court). 
 
 3042. The simplest thing hath infinite and complex 
 surroundings. 
 
 3043. We seldom attend to our own and others'" 
 interests with the same zest. 
 
 3044. We often despair at lesser difficulties when we 
 have already surmounted great ones. 
 
 3045. We appeal often to wisdom in thought and 
 word. 
 
 3046. He who speaks much must speak many 
 unnecessary things. 
 
 3047. Ignorance of art often contemns its cultivators. 
 
 3048. Let a man look more to his own mind, and 
 therein will he read more thoughts than books. 
 
 3049. If thy thoughts be of worth, still let print be 
 the outcome ; for he that thinks, as he that has written 
 well, should be deemed an author. 
 
 3050. Some people cannot judge of others without 
 being supported by their own idea of wealth. 
 
 3051. The purse makes eloquence where poverty is 
 mute. 
 
 3052. Integrity is the support of a virtuous heart an 
 honest mind. 
 
 3053. Darkness is oftentimes the sleep of excellence. 
 
 3054. Where there is no perfection excellence is 
 level. 
 
 3055. The eye is the lamp of fashion. 
 
 3056. The observance of others is the food of pride. 
 
 3057. Wealth gives authority often to the ignorant. 
 
 3058. Fear is oftentimes the fainting of hope. 
 
 3059. When justice dies vice attains power. 
 
 3060. Successes increase respect. 
 
 3061. Wisdom should rest in the soul. 
 
 3062. The vain love not rivalry. 
 
 3063. Support merit in its integrity only. 
 
 3064. Find but a study or truth which may forward 
 some inherent virtue or faculty in man, and thou shalt 
 never be at a loss for an audience. 
 
 3065. Eternity is the plain of the soul. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 113 
 
 3066. If we think well in reason we shall never be in 
 vant of a monitor in action. 
 
 3067. As we die in truth so do we die for it. 
 
 3068. Profit and interest are the great motors of 
 mman nature. 
 
 3069. From life springs the hope of it. 
 
 3070. Even profit is sometimes unselfish. 
 
 3071. Often do those things differ most which 
 esemble in appearance. 
 
 3072. Good nature often dims the heart's contempt. 
 
 3073. We are never truly successful when we con- 
 emn. 
 
 3074. Despair is not only a bad reaper, but makes 
 nore labour. 
 
 3075. 111 success is often the admonition of wisdom. 
 
 3076. The soul is the light of eternal things. 
 
 3077. Infinity dwells in the soul, as the soul in 
 nfinity. 
 
 3078. There are many causes for the soul's fertile 
 iismay. , 
 
 3079. Deem not a just task difficult. 
 
 3080. It is the way in which we value things which 
 nakes them indispensable. 
 
 3081. Despair flies from those things that are certain. 
 
 3082. The support of evil is undermined by enmity to 
 ihee. 
 
 3083. Let due time weigh well in thy actions. 
 
 3084. We should not account that altogether ill which 
 las been worked with a good intention. 
 
 3085. Fear the least frown from wisdom's anger. 
 
 3086. Satiety is the desert of the soul. 
 
 3087. Maxims come from any moment. 
 
 3088. Meditation is profit for the present and future. 
 
 3089. Meditation often enchains hope to best resolves. 
 
 3090. For one thought many a life has worked to its 
 *oal. 
 
 3091. We see, at times, far for others' good ; but our 
 )est interests come home to ourselves. 
 
 3092. Let our interests ever give place to wisdom. 
 
 3093. What is our interest is often best for another's. 
 
 3094. Many live with truth on compulsion. 
 
 3095. Interest is not always single. 
 
114 MAXIMS. 
 
 3096. _ We welcome ill when we countenance it. 
 3097'. _ If you are truly just to yourself, others' ill will 
 not prove unjust to thee. 
 
 3098 The interest of others fades before our own. 
 3099*. No one can be truly just to you if you are unjust 
 
 310a Meditation is both the leisure and work of the 
 
 3101. Meditation is the directing power which employs 
 the faculties of the soul. 
 
 3102 Truth never requires an unjust arbitrator. 
 
 3103*. The faculties of the soul are the breathings o 
 
 3104. Ill handiwork sometimes brings forth best inten- 
 tions and designs. 
 
 3105. _ Fortune has no desire ot ill. 
 
 3106. Actions are the tools of fortune. 
 
 3107. Try truth in armour. 
 
 3108. All things bow before charity. 
 
 3109. Confidence in right is support in wrong. ^ 
 
 3110. Our best actions are not always our best mte] 
 
 tions. 
 
 3111. He who fails, hope neglects. 
 
 3112. Be bold with proved assurance. 
 
 3H3._Certainty of right makes boldness^just. 
 
 3H4 Approve nothing except with justice. 
 
 3115. The realms of thought are infinite, and as pro- 
 ductive as those of Nature. 
 
 3116. Prudence should extend to all things. 
 
 3107 .Weigh not with envy. 
 
 3118 Prejudice often makes taste a bad standard. 
 
 3119 That is never useless which virtue sanctions. 
 
 3120. The knowledge of others' successes is sometimes 
 the best reward for ourselves. 
 
 3121. Wisdom only balances rightly. ^ 
 
 3122 Truth is the reward of rightful inquiry. 
 
 3123*. He has lived well who is necessary 
 
 V1 3 t 124. When we come to think, there is an eternity of 
 
 visit (like a second view) often makes 
 things look better. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 115 
 
 3126. 111, at times, seems to decrease in enormity if 
 looked upon twice. 
 
 3127. How often do the eyes labour ill ! 
 3128. Success is often fertile in admonition. 
 3129. Passion makes the simplest resolves in wisdom 
 difficult. 
 
 3130. Moments are the roots of years. 
 3131. Receive not that ill which harms not and is 
 well intentioned. 
 
 3132. Extremes are never just standards. 
 3133. Many live ill who live in (worldly) content. 
 3134. Gain is the root of most actions. 
 3135. When we discard hope the future has a certain 
 frown. 
 
 3136. Economy hath not always need of a house (to 
 preserve it). 
 
 3137. ON LETTERS. 1. Letters are the conversations 
 of absence. 2. Letters are the couriers of destiny. 3. 
 Letters are often like lamps, that burn at first with a 
 pleasant flame, but afterwards grow dim. 4. Letters are 
 the mind's pageants. 5. Letters are sometimes capital 
 things if they are answered. 6. A letter is like a friend 
 who is well or ill received as his favour is prosperous or 
 not ; or, like a new book, we know not what is contained 
 therein until we open it. 7. Despise not the letter ; to 
 address an influential body of public men is as much a 
 public act as it is to print a book or issue a pamphlet. 
 3138. Look on recent quarrels as old ones. 
 3139. The work of the soul is rest in peace. 
 3140. Take not after injustice. 
 3141. The first use of life is to abstain from evil. 
 3142. Ask not every opinion to weigh. 
 3143. Seek well for the imagination. 
 3144. Trust hath a time for delay. 
 3145. Whatever road you travel let wisdom bear thee 
 company. 
 
 3146. Many arts are given us to know their useless- 
 ness ; where these are no use, the designs may be. 
 3147. Seek firmness in right, but let it be right. 
 3148. True hope is that which is built on virtue. 
 3149. Every advantage is not gotten with industry 
 alone. 
 
116 MAXIMS. 
 
 3150. Neglect is the canker of hope. 
 
 3151. War, like fortune, deals in surprises. 
 
 3152. To know rightly is to practise in all humility. 
 
 3153. Have no opinions except those founded on 
 justice. 
 
 3154. If we entertain unjust views we cannot be 
 virtuous, for we cannot approve by actions and be 
 untainted. 
 
 3155. With life hours are sometimes destinies. 
 
 3156. Time still works out its end unknown to us. 
 
 3157. That which we take for justice is often only the 
 appearance of it. 
 
 3158. Power can bear many frowns. 
 
 3159. What is stamped by truth is a strong defence. 
 
 3160. Ideas and principle still control peace and war : 
 material power (only) is the brute's prerogative. 
 
 3161. Own thy humility when it behoves thee to do it. 
 
 3162. Let fatigue rest with wisdom. 
 
 3168. Endeavour to understand rightly your position 
 and positions, for thousands affect to despise the very rules 
 (which are maxims) they are, unwittingly, governed by. 
 
 3164. Without justice, ever with danger. 
 
 3165. We take up our residence with danger when we 
 discard justice. 
 
 3166. Endless is the good of just things. 
 
 3167. Justice unnoticed works time back at us. 
 
 3168. Gratitude of favours is a redemption of ill. 
 
 3169. Sense loves a just interpretation. 
 
 3170. Knowledge of useless things is loss of know- 
 ledge. , 
 
 3171. We cannot be wise unless we pull down the 
 structure of prejudice. 
 
 3172. Faith, justice, and hope are the three supports 
 of the soul in affliction. 
 
 3173. Keason requires no injury. 
 
 3174. War the great problem of power and time. 
 
 3175. Judgments are often from favour. 
 
 3176. Do not contemn just arts. 
 
 3177. Be advised slowly when thy just interests are 
 threatened ; let possibility divide the line. 
 
 3178.--Hope always for just things and wisdom will 
 favour thee. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 117 
 
 3179. Performance is the seal of promise. 
 
 3180. Safe is he who dwells with right and piety. 
 
 3181. Fortune often retires when made too welcome. 
 
 3182. Words often frame thought and signals to the 
 soul. 
 
 3183. Words often prove enemies to plague you. 
 
 3184. Till all be heard let thy verdict incline to good 
 report. 
 
 3185. Success is brighter than the diamond. 
 
 3186. Truth is the best idea ; all designs are incom- 
 plete without it. 
 
 3187. Ideas are often the strongest facts. 
 
 3188. Justly sanction the best intentions. 
 
 3189. To hope often is the best prudence. 
 
 3190. What is not thought is not prejudged. 
 
 319.1. He labours hard who pleases all. 
 
 3192. The less " friends" the less to please. 
 
 3193. Common sense is a trusty support. 
 
 3194. Ask no unjust recompense. 
 
 3195. Kemember that words are often judged inten- 
 tions. 
 
 3196. Do right by all. 
 
 3197. What we smile on now often is the cause of 
 (future) danger. 
 
 3198. It is the interests of men that often divide 
 them. 
 
 3199. Interest spreads as it grows. 
 
 3200. Hunger makes more work than will. 
 
 3201. To give welcome to evil is to be an enemy to 
 thyself. 
 
 3202. Best are those things which do not deny best. 
 
 3203. The calm journey of the soul still accompanies 
 desert. 
 
 3204. Chance has given many certainties, but it is a 
 bad foundation. 
 
 3205. There is no exit from the soul's domain. 
 
 3206. Without some practical view most intentions 
 are irresolute. 
 
 3207. The station of life in which we find ourselves is 
 oftentimes the greatest obstacle we have to surmount. 
 
 3208. Be pleased with the justice of the action and 
 not the applause. 
 
118 MAXIMS. 
 
 3209. Remember that in birth as in death we are 
 ever the measure of our graves. 
 
 3210. Many who are thought friends are often con- 
 cealed enemies. 
 
 3211. Be thou never a hook for ill report. 
 
 3212. 111 report is ever a thankless office ; the just 
 know it not in ill. 
 
 3213. Trust not except to approved wisdom. 
 
 3214. Good principle is the foil to evil. 
 
 3215. Speak not except with proof. 
 
 3216. Agreement is often a just standard. 
 
 3217. Content is relative ; all is content if desires are 
 subdued. 
 
 3218. Take time for wisdom and it will increase in 
 value. 
 
 3219. We lose time when we do not seek it. 
 
 3220. Eeason is a friend at all times. 
 
 3221. The best friends are (often) those you see not. 
 
 3222. What we know not is oftentimes our best 
 support. 
 
 3223. Few evils are single. 
 
 3224. If we work and do not think, there may not be 
 time to think. 
 
 3225. Anxious hours wait on the imprudent. 
 
 3226. Just principles are the support of all things. 
 
 3227. Pride lessens even a good result. 
 
 3228. We must owe somewhat to others' as well as to 
 our own interest. 
 
 3229.- Half the world would be sublime if pride were 
 absent. 
 
 3230. Business (or a calling) is often the key of 
 
 3231. Let not gain, or hope of gain, ever subvert 
 principle. 
 
 3232. Taste hath a large tether. 
 
 3233. Folly, after all, meets the most contempt. 
 
 3234. Truth the seal of all justice and virtue. 
 
 3235. What suits most is often never intended for 
 thee. 
 
 3236. Never favour the decisions of evil. 
 
 3237. Wisdom is the one unfailing resource. 
 
[APPENDIX.] 
 
 A LIST 
 
 OF THE 
 
 TWENTY THOUSAND (20,000) 
 
 ORIGINAL AIRS 
 
 AND MUSICAL PIECES; 
 
 WITH THE OTHER MANUSCRIPT 
 
 WOEKS 
 
 OF 
 
 EDWARD COUNSEL 
 
 (Or SOMEEVILLE, AUSTEALIA). 
 
 I. 
 
 ORIGINAL MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS. 
 
 NOTE. 1. Read the following List in the plural number, thus : Marches 
 Airs, Songs, and so on. 
 
 2. Also in Spanish, French, Italian, German, &c. 
 
 3. Those in italics are new varieties. 
 
 4. In the Original Draught they are classed under the general 
 
 term "Airs." 
 
 5. All these Airs are strictly Original Productions, and not 
 
 arrangements or adaptations in any sense whatever. 
 
 6. Arranged, for easier reference, in form of index. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 LIST. 
 
 Airs (every variety of the Air, Aria, Arietta, Arieta, Ayre, 
 Aree, Arioso, Ar, Aer, &c.), Adagio, Andante, Allegro, All 
 'Improvista, Appel, Aragonesa, Aires ala Espanola. 
 
 Bagatelle, Ballad (Balada, &c. see Note 2), Ballet (Airs de), 
 Baile, Barcarolle, Berceuse, Barcarolle-Komanza, Bolero, 
 Bourre, Brando, Breakdown, Buffa Air, Banjcnette, Burletta, 
 Bugula di Monte, Bravura (Aria di). 
 
 Cachucha, Cadenza, Call, Cancion (cancionita, &c.), Cancao, 
 Carol, Carolette, Canon (theme), Cassideh, Canzone (Can- 
 zonetta), Canzonic-Air, Canto, Capriccio, Caprice-Etude, 
 Canon-Cancrizans, Cielito, Cavatina, Catch, E. Catholic 
 Hymn, Chant, Litany, &c., Ceen, Chanson (Chansonnette, 
 Chanson-a-boire, &c.),. Coranto, Chaunt, Comic Song (airs 
 only), Coro theme, Concerto theme, Corea, Carrillon, Coplas, 
 Cotillon, Chasse, Country Dance. 
 
 Dance Music, Danse (Aersde), Danza, &c., Dead March, 
 Dirge, Ditty, Divertimento, Double- 1 ValsukaJ Dramatic 
 Movement, Duetto. 
 
 "Erin" (Melodies of), Espanola (Arietas a la), Echo, 
 Elegie, Endecha (or lament), Episode, Entree, Etude, Exercise 
 (suitable for Violin, Guitar, Clarionette, Flute, and other 
 instruments), with Airs in the various European and Oriental 
 modes. 
 
 Fancy Dance (Pas, &o.), Fandango, Finale, Fugue (theme), 
 Fantasia (theme), Fonn [Fonn Airs in the (assumed) ancient 
 Celtic mode] with others. 
 
 Galop, Gallopade, Toro, or Spanish Bull Galope, Gayta, 
 Gazul, Giga, Gavotte, Glee (theme), Gondola-Air, Galliard, 
 Ground, Guaracha. 
 
 Hornpipe, Hunt, Havanero, Haven, Hymn (Himno, &c. 
 see Note 2). 
 
 "Irish" Melodies (Airs composed in the Irish mode 
 numerous), Intermezzo (1st violin), entitled: " Donovello 
 Tonale il Suonatore," Italiana (Aria), Idylle, Impromptu, 
 Intermedley Airs, Introduzione. 
 
 Jaleo, Jacara, Jota (or La Xota), Jig, Joydelucton, Jubilate, 
 Joya, Jarana. 
 
 Kossiniaire, Kassideh. 
 
APPENDIX. ill. 
 
 Laudate, Lament, Lavolta, Laudler, Lay, Lied (lieder see 
 Note 2), Legenda, Lesson, Letra, Letrilla, Libeslied, Lilt, 
 Luinig, Litany, Lyric. 
 
 Melody, &c. (in great variety all modes), March (Marcia, 
 Marche, &o.), Madrigal (theme), March-Polacca, Mazurka, 
 Meditation, Medley, Maggot, Minuetto, Modinho, Morceau, 
 Morisco, Motet Air, Messe (Aires pour le), Musica di Camera, 
 Madrilena, Movimento, do. Militare, The Mezcla, and Miscel- 
 laneous. 
 
 National Air (for all Nations), Napolitana, Nava, Negro 
 Eefrain and Air, Naval Air, Nocturne. 
 
 Ode, Olla, Operatic Air, Overture (Violino Primo). 
 
 Pas, &c., Pasacalle, Paisona (or Contradanza), Passato, 
 Pastorale, Pensee, Pensee-Poetique, Peobreachd (or Pibroch), 
 Plantation Air, Pantomime do., Paspie, Planxty, Pifferari, 
 Polacca, Piece, Polonaise, Polonaise-March, Polacca- Quadrille, 
 Postlude, Prelude, Prelude- Air, Preghiera (Priere), Promptu- 
 Militaire, The Phonody. 
 
 Quadrille, Quick Step (Q. or March), Quartela, Quintett 
 and 4tet theme. 
 
 Keel, Eecitative, Eequiem Air, Eefrain, Eant, Eetreat, 
 Eedondilla, Eeveille, Eann, Eeve, Eeverie, Eigodon, Eimas, 
 Eimac-Air, Einka (" Einka-fadha," or Eince), Eitornella, 
 Eomance (Eomanza, &c.), Eondo, Eondo-Valse, Eound, 
 Eoundel, Eunes, Eomancero, Eeligioso (Air). 
 
 Salut-Hilitaire, Saloma, " Sang-Stund," Saraband, Saltarelo, 
 Scherzo, Scena, Stage Airs, Scrabmagg, Sketch, Saltaren, 
 Salve, Spinnlied, Solfeggio, Seguidilla, Sonetic-Air, Siciliana, 
 Sonata, Skalld, Souvenir, Spanish Bull-Galop, Spanish Waltz, 
 SONG, &c. (numerous), Solo, Step, Step-Dance, Spring, Sen- 
 tencia-Aire, Strathspey, Sand-Dance, Sorbico, Silva, Study, 
 Slow-March, Subject. 
 
 Te Deum (Air), TUNE (Ton, Tono, Tonada, Tonadilla, 
 Tonus, Toon, Tuono, &c.), Tyrolienne, Triumphal-March, 
 Tarantella, Thema (numerous), Trot, Tonetic-Air, Terzetto 
 (theme), Toro Fiesta (Spanish Bull Fight Airs, &c.), Theatre 
 (Airs, &c., &c.), Thumpe, Trio, Toro Galope. 
 
 Valse (Valse-Song, Valce Espanola, Valcette, Valse Deux 
 Temps, &c.), Valse-Air, Violin Music, Counsel's " Violin 
 
IV. APPENDIX. 
 
 School," or " Studio" (Airs and Exercises for), Veneziana y 
 Vesper-Hymn, Virelai, Villancico, Vocero, Vilanella, Vaude- 
 ville-Air, Volante, Vaterland (arie a la), " Volkslied," 
 Voluntary, Valsuka (a new measure). 
 
 Waltz (Walz, Walzer, &c.), War-March. 
 Xacara, Xota (La). 
 
 Zambapalo, Zambra, Ziraleet, Zorzico, Zapateado, Zara- 
 banda, and 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS AIRS. 
 
 II. 
 
 MAXIMS. 
 
 (See present volume). 
 III. 
 
 FOUR HUNDRED (400) DESIGNS (OR SUGGES- 
 TIONS) SENT TO VARIOUS GOVERNMENTS. 
 
 IV. 
 
 "12 MELODIES OF ERIN." 
 
 Original Melodies to Selected Words. 
 
 Now Ready for Publication. 
 Proposals invited from Publishers for Series in Popular Form. 
 
 V. 
 
 NEW MUSICAL AND LITERARY THEORIES, EN- 
 TITLED: "THE DlCENDIAL PHILOSOPHY." 
 
 VI. 
 
 LETTERS TO PUBLIC BODIES AND GOVERNMENTS. 
 
APPENDIX. V. 
 
 VII. 
 
 NEW MUSICAL MEASURES AND VARIETIES. 
 
 (Vide Musical List). 
 VIII. 
 
 NEW ORDER (SUGGESTED) : " THE INDEPENDENT 
 ORDER OF UNITED MUSICIANS OF AUSTRAL- 
 ASIA." 
 
 (With 27 Rules, &c.) 
 IX. 
 
 POSTAL CHEQUE (OR GOVERNMENT MONEY-NOTE) 
 SYSTEM. 
 
 Submitted to Australian Governments. 
 X. 
 
 Two LECTURES ON Music AND MUSICAL 
 FACULTY. 
 
 No. I. delivered (read) by the Author at Hastings (Victoria),. 
 24th December, 1886. 
 
 XI. 
 
 THE READY SIGNATURE-PEN. 
 
 Submitted to various Governments. 
 XII. 
 
 PIANO TONIC SCALE. 
 
 To enable Beginners to play Air at the first attempt. 
 
Tl. APPENDIX. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 SUGGESTIONS FOR: 
 
 1. New Entertainments. 
 
 2. New Societies. 
 
 3. Guitarine ; or, " Guitar-Violin," and others. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 CIRCULARS, CARDS, MEMOS, LISTS, SUGGESTIONS, 
 
 &c. 
 XV. 
 
 APPELLATIONS. 
 
 (Titles, or Proper Names). 
 New Words and Terms for Musical and Literary Purposes. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 THE DIALETTE; OR, MANUAL DIAL 
 
 (With other Suggestions). 
 XVII. 
 
 VARIOSA, HINTS, ETC. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 AIRS, EXAMPLES, ETC., FOR WORK ON Music. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 REMARKS ON POETS OF SPAIN AND ITALY. 
 
 (Suitable for a Reading or Lecturette). 
 
APPENDIX. Vli. 
 
 XX. 
 
 NOT.E. 
 
 Miscellanies. 
 
 %* Publishing Proposals invited. Correspondence 
 solicited. 
 
 .B. Original Airs and Musical Pieces expressly composed. 
 Available as Musical Manager ; Solo Vocalist (tenor) ; 
 Composer for Societies, Concerts, &c. 
 
 [CARD.] 
 
 Lessons (by post) in following branches: 
 1. Music and Singing. 
 2. Violin. 
 
 3. Banjo (5 or 6 stringed instruments) ; also, Guitar Hints 
 4. Melody Composition. 
 
 5. Action and Deportment; Dramatic Elocution. 
 6. Music Writing. 
 7. Dialing ; and other subjects. 
 
 Letters promptly attended to. 
 
 END OF VOL. I. 
 
 ADDRESS : 
 
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 Near Frankston, 
 AUSTKALIA. 
 
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