that the readiest way to make either mind or body grow awry, is by lacing it too tight.-S. T. Coleridge.

71.

No learning ought to be learned with bondage. For bodily labours wrought by compulsions hurt not the body; but any learning learned by compulsions tarrieth not long in the mind.-Roger Ascham.

72.

It is not less true of the intellect than of the body, that premature exertion occasions mal-conformation or disease.-W: B. Clulow.

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A monitor ought, in the first place, to have a regard to the delicacy and sense of shame of the person admonished. For they who are hardened. against a blush are incorrigible.-Epictetus.

74.

The teachers of youth in a free country should select those books for their chief study-so far, I mean, as the world is concerned-which are best adapted to foster a spirit of manly freedom. The duty of preserving the liberty which our ancestors, through God's blessing, won, established, and handed down to us, is no less imperative than any commandment in the Second Table, if it be not the concentration of the whole.-Guesses at Truth.

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None are so fit to teach others their duty, and none so likely to gain men to it, as those who practise it themselves; because hereby we convince men that we are in earnest, when they see that we persuade them to nothing but what we choose to do ourselves.-Dr. T. Fuller.

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The small progress of men under the best religious instruction, need excite the surprise of no one who recollects the ignorance and mistakes of the Apostles under the teaching of our Saviour.W. B. Clulow.

Discipline, like the bridle in the hand of a good rider, should exercise its influence without appearing to do so, should ever be active, both as a support and as a restraint, yet seem to lie easily in hand. It must always be ready to check or pull up, as occasion may require; and only when the horse is a runaway should the action of the curb be perceptible.-Guesses at Truth.

78.

A fault once excused is twice committed.

79.

Humanity is the first of virtues; but humanity should be tempered with judgment; for when the same lenity is shewn to imprudence, or even to the indulgence of vicious habits, that is due to unavoidable misfortune, or to accidental error; instead of doing any real good to the individual we shew it to, we only encourage his faults, and aggravate the distress that we wish to relieve, besides the example and encouragement we give to others; till at last we are forced to use that severity which, if exercised sooner, and perhaps in a smaller degree, would have been the greatest humanity we could shew.-W. Danby.

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All men should rather wish for virtue than wealth, which is dangerous to the foolish; for vice is increased by riches. And in proportion as any one is destitute of understanding, into the more

injurious excess he flies out, by having the means of gratifying the rage of his pleasures.-Epictetus.

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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty; and learning teacheth safely, when experience maketh more miserable than wise. He hazardeth sore that waxeth wise by experience. An unhappy master is he that is made cunning by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant that is neither rich nor wise but after some bankrupts. It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. We know by experience itself that it is a marvellous pain to find out, but a short way by long wandering. And surely, he that would prove wise by experience, he may be witty indeed, but even like a swift runner that runneth fast out of the way, and upon the night, he knoweth not whither. And verily they be fewest in number that be happy or wise by unlearned experience, and look well upon the former life of those few, whether your ample be old or young, who without learning have gathered by long experience a little wisdom and some happiness; and when you consider what mischief they have committed, what dangers they have escaped (and yet twenty for one do perish in the adventure), then think well with yourself whether you would that your own son should come to happiness by the way of such experience or no.-Roger Ascham.

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"Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum." This is well translated by some one who observes, that it is far better to borrow experience than to buy it. He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness, and he that is warned by all the folly of others has perhaps attained the soundest wisdom. But such is the purblind egotism and the suicidal selfishness

of mankind, that things so desirable are seldom pursued, things so accessible seldom attained. That is indeed a twofold knowledge which profits alike by the folly of the foolish and the wisdom of the wise; it is both a shield and a sword; it borrows its security from the darkness and its confidence from the light.—Lacon. 83.

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There are things which are in our power, and which operate on the mind and affect and alter the will and appetite, and, therefore, possess most influence in producing a change of manners. which department philosophers ought to have laboriously and industriously made enquiries on the power and efficacy of custom, practice, habit, education, example, emulation, company, friendship, praise, reproof, exhortation, fame, laws, books, studies, and other things of the same sort. For these are the influences which predominate in morals, by the agency of these the mind is affected and disposed; of these, as ingredients, medicines are compounded, which may be useful in preserving and recovering soundness of mind as far as that can be effected by human remedies.-Bacon.

84.

Patients are displeased with a physician who doth not prescribe to them and think he gives them over. And why are none so affected towards a physician of the mind as to conclude he despairs of their recovery to a right way of thinking, if he tell them nothing which may be for their good?— Epictetus.

85.

Does not each faculty both of body and of mind grow by exercise and dwindle by disuse?

86.

The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power. Effects are

produced by means of instruments and helps, which the understanding requires no less than the hand. And as instruments either promote or regulate the motion of the hand, so those that are applied to the mind prompt or protect the understanding.-Bacon.

87.

The way to invigorate and excite the powers of the mind is not so much to urge them with a multitude of motives, as to bring some great subject before the attention.-W. B. Clulow.

88.

Invention is one of the great marks of genius, but if we consult experience we shall find that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think. The mind is but a barren soil;-is a soil soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.Sir Joshua Reynolds.

89.

The manurement of wits is like that of soils: when before either the pains of tilling or the charge of sowing, men use to consider what the mould will bear-heath or grain.-Sir H. Wotton.

90.

Professions of universal education are as ludicrous as professions of universal cure, the obliquity and inaptitude of some minds being absolutely incurable.-W. B. Clulow.

91.

Mallet, in his "Northern Antiquities," relates that the Scandinavians had a god, Kvasir, who was suffocated by the multitude of ideas sticking in his throat, because he could not find any one who could question him fast enough to get them out of