290 ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 



For FLATTERY Against 



Flattery proceeds from custom rather Flattery is the style of a slave, 

 than ill design. Flattery is the varnish of vice. 



To convey instruction with praise is Flattery is fowling with a bird-call. 

 a form due to the great. The deformity of flattery is comedy, 



but the injury, tragedy. 



To convey good counsel is a hard 

 task. 



For FORTITUDE Against 



Nothing is terrible but fear itself. A strange virtue that, to desire to 



Pleasure and virtue lose their nature destroy, to secure destruction. 



where fear disquiets. A goodly virtue truly, which even 



To view danger is looking out to drunkenness can cause. 



avoid it. A prodigal of his own life threatens 



Other virtues subdue vice, but forti- the lives of others. 



tude even conquers fortune. Fortitude is a virtue of the iron age. 



For FORTUNE Against 



Public virtues procure praise ; but The folly of one man is the fortune 



private ones, fortune. of another. 



Fortune, like the milky way, is a This may be commended in fortune, 



cluster of small, twinkling, nameless that if she makes no election, she 



virtues. gives no protection. 



Fortune is to be honored and re- The great, to decline envy, worship 



spected, though it were but for her fortune. 



daughters, Confidence and Authority. 



For FRIENDSHIP Against 



Friendship does the same as forti- To contract friendship is to procure 

 tude, but more agreeably. encumbrance. 



Friendship gives the relish to hap- It is a weak spirit that divides for- 

 piness. tune with another. 



The worst solitude is to want 

 friendship. 



It is just that the hollow-hearted 

 should not find friendship. 



For HEALTH Against 



The care of health subjects the Recovery from sickness is rejuve- 



mind to the body. nescency. 



A healthy body is the tabernacle, Pretence of sickness is a good ex- 



but a sickly one the prison of the cu&e for the healthy. 



soul. Health too strongly cements the 



A sound constitution forwards busi soul and body. 



