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Through all his frame with tempest and distraction.

SECRECY OF.

Mallet.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. Lloyd.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

it;

For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

THE SERVANTS of.

Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him who makes it.

How many fond fools serve man jealously. Shakespeare.

Shakespeare.

His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep more than did laugh at it. Ibid.

A jest in scorn points out, and hits the thing

that all shall be able to join in the laugh which it occasions; but if it bear hard upon one of the company, like the crack of a string, it makes a stop in the music.

JOKING.

CAUTION NECESSARY IN.

Feltham.

Never risk a joke, even the least offensive More home than the morosest satire's sting in its nature, and the most common, with a

JESTER.

CHARACTER of a.

Butler.

person who is not well bred, and possessed of sense to comprehend it. La Bruyere.

JOLLITY.

DISPOSITION TO.

Rare compound of oddity, frolic and fun,
To relish a joke, and rejoice at a pun.

Goldsmith.

He cannot try to speak with gravity,
But one perceives he wags an idle tongue;
He cannot try to look demure, but spite
Of all he does, he shows a laugher's cheek;
He cannot e'en essay to walk sedate,
But in his very gait one sees a jest,
That's ready to break out in spite of all
His seeming.
Knowles.

INFLUENCE OF A.

That very oft,

When I am dull with care and melancholy,

Give me health and a day, and I will make ridiculous the pomp of emperors. Emerson.

Joy is a delight of the mind, from the conLightens my humour with his merry jests.sideration of the present or assured ap

Take heed of jesting; many have been ruined by it. It is hard to jest and not sometimes jeer too; which oftentimes sinks deeper than was intended or exFuller. pected.

FATAL INFLUENCE OF CONSTANTLY.

He who never relaxes into sportiveness is a wearisome companion; but beware of him who jests at everything! Such men disparage by some ludicrous association, all objects which are presented to their thoughts, and thereby render themselves incapable of any emotion which can either elevate or soften them; they bring upon their moral being an influence more witherIng than the blasts of the desert. Southey. JESTS.

SEASONABLENESS OF.

Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow. A jest should be such,

SILENCE OF.

Ibid.

JOY AND GRIEF.

Then happy those, since each must drain
His share of pleasure, share of pain;
The happy those beloved of Heaven,
To whom the mingled cup is given,
Whose lenient sorrows find relief,
Whose joys are chasten'd by their grief.
Scott.
JOYS.

CLOYING, EFfect of.

Joys are not joys, that always stay;
And constant pleasures don't delight, but
cloy.
Brome.

FADING.

How fading are the joys we dote upon!
Like apparitions seen and gone;
But those which soonest take their flight
Are the most exquisite and strong;
Like angels' visits, short and bright,
Mortality's too weak to bear them long.
Norris.

LITTLE.

Little joys refresh us constantly, like house-bread, and never bring disgust; and great ones, like sugar-bread, briefly, and then bring it. Richter.

JOYS AND SORROWS.
Wise heaven doth see it fit
In all our joys to give us some alloys,

Indeed true gladness doth not always As in our sorrows, comforts; when our sails speak:

Are fill'd with happiest winds, then we most need

Joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak. SPRING OF.

Trouble is a thing that will come without our call; but true joy will not spring up without ourselves. Bishop Patrick.

Fountain.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works. "Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him. L'Estrange. FORMED BY FORTUNE.

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward

Do draw the inward quality after them.
Shakespeare.

HASTY.
How little do they see what is, who frame
Their hasty judgment upon that which
Southey.

seems.

IN CHANGING OPINIONS.

BLINDNESS OF.

Justice, when equal scales she holds, is blind

You think it is a want of judgment that he changes his opinion. Do you think it a proof that your scales are bad because they | Nor cruelty, nor mercy, change her mind; vibrate with every additional weight that When some escape for that which others die, is added to either side? Mercy to those, to these is cruelty.

A PAIR OF SCALES.

Edgeworth.

Judgment is but a curious pair of scales, That turns with th' hundredth part of true or false,

And still the more 'tis used 'tis wont t' abate
The subtlety and niceness of its weight,
Until 'tis false, and will not rise or fall,
Like those that are less artificial;
And therefore students, in their ways of
judging,

Are fain to swallow many a senseless gudgeon,

And by their over-understanding lose
Its active faculty with too much use;
For reason, when too curiously 'tis spun
Is but the next of all removed from none.
Butler.

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