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e they all invented at once. Who sings in grief procures relief. Let every one turn himself round, and look at home, and he will find enough to do. To be grateful for benefits received is the duty of honest men--one of the sins that most offendeth God is ingratitude. Benefits conferred on base-minded people are like drops of water thrown into the sea. Retreating is not running away, nor is staying wisdom when the danger overbalances the hope; and it is the part of wise men to secure themselves to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all upon one throw. The wicked are always ungrateful. Necessity urges desperate measures. SONNET. Know'st thou, O love, the pangs that I sustain, Or, cruel, dost thou view those pangs unmov'd? Or has some hidden cause its influence proved, By all this sad variety of pain? Love is a god, then surely he must know, And knowing, pity wretchedness like mine; From other hands proceeds the fatal blow-- Is then the deed, unpitying Chloe, thine? Ah, no! a form so exquisitely fair A soul so merciless can ne'er enclose. From Heaven's high will my fate resistless flows, And I, submissive, must its vengeance bear. Nought but a miracle my life can save, And snatch its destined victim from the grave. The devil is subtle, and lays stumbling-blocks in our way, over which we fall without knowing how. In all misfortunes the greatest consolation is a sympathizing friend. Riches are but of little avail against the ills inflicted by the hand of Heaven. He that buys and denies, his own purse belies. Till you hedge in the sky, the starlings will fly. If a painter would be famous in his art, he must endeavor to copy after the originals of the most excellent masters; the same rule is also applicable to all the other arts and sciences which adorn the commonwealth; thus, whoever aspires to a reputation for prudence and patience, must imitate Ulysses, in whose person and toils Homer draws a lively picture of those qualities; so also Virgil, in the character of AEneas, delineates filial piety, courage, and martial skill, being representations of not what they really were, but of what they ought to be, in order to serve as models of virtue to succeeding generations. The absent feel and fear every ill. "I have heard say," quoth Sancho, "'from hell there is no
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