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ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [bOOK VI. 



For. 



PRAISE. 



Against. 



Praise is the reflected ray of 

 virtue. 



Praise is honour obtained by 

 free voices. 



Many states confer honours, but 

 praise always proceeds from liberty. 



The voice of the people hath 

 Bomething of divine, else how- 

 should so many become of one 

 mind? 



No wonder if the commonalty 

 upeak truer than the nobility, be- 

 cause they speak with less danger. 



For, 



PREPAEATION. 



He who attempts great matters 

 with small means hopes for oppor- 

 tunity to keep him in heart. 



Slender provision buys wit, but 

 not fortune. 



Fame makes a quick messenger 

 but a rash judge. 



What has a good man to 

 do with the breath of the 

 Tulgar ? 



Fame, like a river, buoys up 

 things light and swollen,but drowns 

 those that are weighty. 



Low virtues gain the praise of 

 the vulgar, ordinary ones astonish 

 them, but of the highest they have 

 no feeling. 



Praise is got by bravery more 

 than merit, and given rather to 

 the vain and empty than to the 

 worthy and substantial. 



Against. 



The first occasion is the best 

 preparation. 



Fortune is not to be fettered in 

 the chains of preparation. 



The interchange of preparation 

 and action are politic, but the se- 

 paration of them ostentatious and 

 unsuccessful. 



Great preparation is a prodigal 

 both of time and business. 



For. 



PRIDE. 



Against. 



Pride is inconsistent even with 

 vice ; and as poison expels poison, 

 so are many vices expelled by 

 pride. 



An easy nature is subject to 

 other men's vices, but a proud one 

 only to its own. 



Pride, if it rise from a contempt 

 of others to a contempt of itself, at 

 length becomes philosophy. 



For. READINESS. 



That 18 unseasonable wisdom 

 which is not ready. 



He who errs suddenly, suddenly 

 reforms his error. 



To be wise upon deliberation, 

 ond not upon present occasion, is 

 no great matter. 



Pride is the ivy of virtue. 



Other vices are only opposites 

 to virtues, but pride is even con- 

 tagious. 



Pride wants the best condition 

 of vice, concealment. 



A proud man, while he despises 

 others, neglects himself. 



Against. 



That knowledge is not deep 

 fetched which lies ready at hand 



Wisdom is like a garment, 

 lightest when readiest. 



They whose counsels are not 

 ripened by deliberation have not 

 their prudence ripened by age. 



What is suddenly invented sud- 

 denly vanishes. 



