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When we cannot act as we wish, we must act as we can. Terrence. CONSEQUENCES OF.

There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a pros

USEFUL.
Make the most of the day, by determin-pect of the end.
ing to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances
only those by whom something may be
got, and those from whom something may
be learned.
Colton.

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DECISION IN.

Thomas of Malmesbury.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. ELOQUENCE OF.

Colton.

Shakespeare.

NECESSITY OF.

Zimmerman.

Think that day lost whose low descending

sun

It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great Views from thy hand no noble action done.

action.

BEEORE THE WORLD.

We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them.

PIOUS.

Jacob Bobart.

With devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
Shakespeare.

La Rochefoucauld. PROMPTNESS IN.

AND COUNTER-ACTION.
You had that action and counter-action
which in the natural and in the political
world, from the reciprocal struggle of dis-
cordant powers, draws out the harmony of
the universe.
Edmund Burke.

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude. Sallust. PRUDENCE IN.

Never do an act of which you doubt the Justice or propriety. Latin

ADOPTION

IMITATES NATURE.

"Tis often seen

Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds

A native slip to us from foreign lands.

Shakespeare.

ADVERSITY.

AGGRAVATED BY IMPATIENCE.

USE OF.

Adversity makes men, but prosperity makes monsters.

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity

USES OF.

Sweet are the uses of adversity,

Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from And this our life, exempt from public haunt,

our impatience.

BENEFICIAL.

Bishop Horne.

Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, And good in everything.

ADVICE.

ABILITY TO USE.

Shakespeare.

Rogers.

Do not take a blind guide nor a bad adviser.

In adversity and difficulties arm yourself EXPERIENCED. with firmness and fortitude.

FORTITUDE IN.

Let no man presume to give advice to
From the Latin. others that has not first given good coun
to himself.
GIVEN BY A FRIEND.

Seneca.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend

Under thine own life's key; be checked for silence,

But never taxed for speech. Shakespeare. GIVEN BY A FATHER TO HIS SON.

Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. The friends thou hast, and their adoption Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. tried,

Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel;

But do not dull thy palm with entertainment

Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware

Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee Give every man thine ear, but few thy vcice.

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy Is feathered often times with heavenly

judgment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of hus-
bandry.

This above all: To thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou cans't not then be false to any man.

Ibid. GIVEN TO AN ANCIENT KING OF TARTARY. Begin nothing without considering what the end may be. Lady M. W. Montague. JIVING.

The worst men often give the best advice.
Bailey.
GIVING FREELY.
Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
La Rochefoucauld.

INADEQUATE.
We give advice, but we cannot give the
wisdom to profit by it.
Ibid.
SEASONABLENESS OF.

Know when to speak, for many times it brings

Danger to give the best advice to kings. Herrick.

SINCERITY IN ASKING AND GIVING. Nothing is less sincere than the way of asking and giving advice. The person asking seems to pay deference to the opinion of his friend, while thinking in reality of making his friend approve his opinion and be responsible for his conduct. The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him by eager and disinterested zeal, in doing which he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation. SINCERITY OF. For by what I could observe in many occurrences of our lives, that which we called giving advice, was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense.

Ibid.

words,

Fathers alone a father's heart can know
What secret tides of still enjoyment flow
When brothers love, but if their hate suc
ceeds,

They wage the war, but 'tis the father
bleeds.
Young.

How Influenced.

Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections are only to be fixed by those that are real. De Moy. MATERNAL.

The poor wren,

The most diminutive of birds, will fight
For young ones in her nest, against the owl.
Shakespeare.

NEEDFUL.

Affection, kindness, and the sweet offices
Generous as brave,
of love and duty, were to him as needful
As his daily bread.
Rogers.

AFFECTIONS.

POWER OF THE.

Of all the tyrants the world affords,
Our own affections are the fiercest lords.
Earl of Sterling.

UNGOVERNABLE.

Why gave ye men affections, and not power
O you much partial gods!
To govern them?
Ludovick Barry.

Lord Shaftsbury. | CAUSES OF.

TAKING OF.
He who can take advice is sometimes su-
perior to him who can give it.

WOMAN'S

Vor. Knebel,

Let no man value at a little price

A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit

AFFLICTION.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Henry.

CONSOLATION IN.

Now let us thank the Eternal Power, convinced

The Heaven that tries our virtue by affliction

That oft the cloud which wraps the present CAUTION OF.

hour,
Serves but to brighten all our future days.
John Brown, 1750.
Alas! by some degree of woe,
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can ne'er a transport know,
That never feels a pain.

NEVER TOO HEAVY.

His mien is lofty, his demeanor great
Nor sprightly folly wantons in his air,
Nor dull serenity becalms his eyes;
Such had I trusted once as soon as seen,
But cautious age suspects the flattering form
And only credits what experience tells.
Dr. Johnson.

Lord Lyttleton. EFFECTS of.

These are the effects of doting age,
Vain doubts, and idle cares, and over cau-
tion.
Dryden.
Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway,
The passion and infirmity of age.

Frowde.

Job, v, 7. GRAVITY OF.

His silver hairs

As threshing separates the corn from the Will purchase us a good opinion, chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

And buy men's voices to commend our deeds:

It shall be said his judgment rul'd our hands;

Our youths and wildness shall no whit ap

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of corn cometh in his seaJob, v, 26.

of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experi-son.

ence. BECOMINGNESS OF.

Rowe.

Youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, Importing nealth and graveness.

Shakespeare.

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise. Ibid.

(OLD,) Cares of.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. Shakespeare.

(OLD,) CHARACTERISTICS OF.

Thus aged men, full loth and slow,
The vanities of life forego,

And count their youthful follies o'er
"Till memory lends her light no more.
Scott.

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