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SAQESSE VAUT MIEUX G^UE FORCE.
Without knowledge meddle not.
DILUIS helleborum certo compescere puncto
Nescius quantum
? vetat hoc natura medendi.
Wilt thou mix hellebore, who doth not know
How many grains should to the mixture go 1
The art of medicine this forbids, I trow.
Felix quern faciunt aliena pericula cautum.
'T'HAT is a twofold knowledge, which profits alike by the folly of the foolish, and j
the wisdom of the wise ; it is both a shield and a sword ;
it borrows its security
from the darkness, and its confidence from the light. COLTON. Lacon. \
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ONE man's meat is another man's poison.
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One man's fault is another man's lesson. QJ
IT is better to learn late than to remain ignorant. PHOCYLIDES. 2
WHAT is the true good ? Knowledge.
And the true evil ? Ignorance. SENECA. UJ
'Disappointment in Marriage. \-
ISTEN, I pray you, to the stories of the disappointed in marriage
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of them turn 1
" They were mistaken in the person." Some disguise either of body
or mind is seen through in the first domestic scuffle : some fair ornament perhaps the P
I) very one which won the heart, the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit falls off ; // is GO
not the Rachael for whom I have served, Why hast thou then beguiled me 1 5:
Be open be honest : give yourself for what you are ; conceal nothing, varnish j
nothing, and if these fair weapons will not do, better not conquer at all, than con-
quer for a day : when
to pass, behold it was Leah !
the night is passed, 'twill ever be the same story, And it came
If the heart beguiles itself in its choice, and imagination will give excellencies
which are not the portion of flesh and blood :
when
the dream is over, and we awake
in the morning, it matters little whether 'tis Rachael or Leah be the object what it
will, as it must be on the earthly side, at least, of perfection, it will fall short of the
work of fancy, whose existence is in the clouds.
In such cases of deception, let not man exclaim as Jacob does in his, What is
it thou hast done unto me ? for 'tis his own doings, and he has nothing to lay his fault
on, but the heat and poetic indiscretion of his own passions. STERNE'S Sermons, vol. iv.
p. ii.
EXPERIENCE TEACHES FOOLS.
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