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For BEAUTY 38 Against 



The deformed endeavor, by malice, Virtue, like a diamond, is best plain 

 to keep themselves from contempt. set. 



Deformed persons are commonly 

 revenged of nature. 



Virtue is internal beauty, and beauty 

 external virtue 



Beauty makes virtue shine, and vice 

 blush. 



For BOLDNESS 



As a good dress to a deformed per 

 son, so is beauty to a vicious man. 



Those adorned with beauty, and 

 those affected by it, are generally 

 shallow alike. 



Against 



Boldness is the verger to folly. 



Impudence is fit for nothing but 

 imposture. 



Confidence is the fool s empress and 

 the wise man s buffoon. 



Boldness is a kind of dulness joined 

 with a perverseness. 



A bashful suitor shows the way to 

 deny him. 



Boldness in a politician is like action 

 in an orator the Qrst, second, and 

 third qualification. 



Love the man who confesses his 

 modesty; but hate him who ac 

 cuses it. 



A confidence in carriage soonest 

 unites affections. 



Give me a reserved countenance 

 and open conversation. 



For CEREMONIES Against 



A graceful deportment is the true What can be more disagreeable than 



ornament of virtue. 



If we follow the vulgar in the use 

 of words, why not in habit and 

 gesture ? 



He who observes not decorum in 

 smaller matters may be a great man, 

 but is unwise at times. 



Virtue and wisdom, without all 

 respect and ceremony, are, like for 

 eign languages, unintelligible to the 

 vulgar. 



He who knows not the sense of the 

 people, neither by congruity nor ob 

 servation, is senseless. 



Ceremonies are the translation of 

 virtue into our own language. 



in common life to copy the stage ? 



Ingenuous behavior procures es 

 teem, but affectation and cunning, 

 hatred. 



Better a painted face and curled 

 hair, than a painted and curled be 

 havior. 



He is incapable of great matters, 

 who breaks his mind with trifling ob 

 servations. 



Affectation is the glossy corruption 

 of ingenuity. 



36 In the original there is a different arrangement. We have followed the 

 alphabetical order. 



