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so many thousand pounds a year, is the common way of estimating men, tho' these things are only about them, not in them, and make no part of their character.

Honors, monuments, and all the works of vanity and ambition, are demolished and destroyed by time; but the reputation of wisdom is venerable to posterity.

When blind ambition quite mistakes her road, And downward pores for that which shines a

bove,

Substantial happiness, and true renown,
Then like an idiot gazing on the book;
We leap at stars, and fasten in the mud;
At glory grasp, and sink in infamy.

BEAUTY.

THERE is nothing that gives us so pleas

ing a prospect of human nature, as the contemplation of wisdom and beauty. Beauty is an overweaning, self-sufficient thing, careless of providing itself any more substantial ornament; nay, so little does it consult its own interest, that it too often defeats itself by betraying that innocence which renders it lovely

and desirable. As therefore virtue makes a beautiful woman appear more beautiful, so beauty makes a virtuous woman really more virtuous.

It is, methinks, a low and degrading idea of that sex, which was created to refine the joys, and soften the cares of human nature, by the most agreeable participation, to consider them merely as objects of sight. This is abridging them of their natural extent of power, to put them upon a level with their pictures. How much noble is the contemplation of beauty heightened by virtue, and commanding our esteem and love, while it draws our observation? How faint and spiritless are the charms of the coquette, when compared with the real loveliness of innocence, piety, good humor, the irresistible charms of modesty unaffected, humanity, with all those rare and pleasing marks of sensibility; virtues, which add a new softness to her sex ; and even beautify her beauty.

Nothing (says Mr. Addison) can atone for the want of modesty and innocence, without which, beauty is ungraceful, and quality contemptible.

Let a woman be decked with all the embellishments of art and care of nature; yet if boldness is to be read in her face, it blots all the lines of beauty.

The plainer the dress, with greater lustre

does beauty appear: virtue is the greatest ornament, and good sense the best equipage.

An inviolable fidelity, good humor, and complacency of temper in a woman, outlive all the charms of a fine face, and make the de cays of it invisible.

It is but too seldom seen, that beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue.

No beauty hath any charms equal to the inward beauty of the mind. A gracefulness in the manners is much more engaging than that of the person; the former every one has the power to attain to in some measure, the latter is in no one's power, is no internal worth, and was the gift of God, who formed us all. Meekness and modesty are the true and last. ing ornaments.

Virtue's the chiefest beauty of the mind, The noblest ornament of human kind.

Beauty inspires a pleasing sentiment, which prepossesses people in its favor. Modesty has great advantages, it sets off beauty, and serves as a veil to ugliness. The misfortune of ugliness is, that it sometimes smothers and buries much merit; people do not look for the engaging qualities of the head and heart in a forbidding figure. 'Tis no easy matter when merit must make its way, and shine through a disagreeable outside.

Without virtue, good sense, and sweetness

of disposition, the finest set of features will, ere long cease to please; but, where these with the graces are united, it must afford an agreeable and pleasing contemplation.

The liberality of nature in the person, is but too frequently attended with a deficiency in the understanding.

Beauty alone in vain its charms dispense,
The charms of beauty, are the charms of sense.

Beauty without the graces of the mind, will have no power over the hearts of the wise and good. Beauty is a flower which soon withers, health changes, and strength abates, but innocency is immortal, and a comfort both in life and death.

Let us suppo the virtuous mind a rose,
Which nature plants and education blows.

Merit, accompanied with beauty, is a jewel set to advantage.

Let virtue prove your never fading bloom,
For mental beauties will survive the tomb.

There are emanations from the mind, which like a ray of celestial fire, animate the form of beauty; without these the most perfect symmetry is but a moulded clod; and whenever they appear, the most indifferent features ac

quire a spirit of sensibility, and an engaging charm, which those only do not admire, who want faculties to discover.-Those strokes of sensibility, those touches of innocence and dignity, &c. display charms too refined for the discernment of vulgar eyes, that are captivated by a glance of beauty, assisted by vivid color and gaudy decoration.

BENEVOLENCE.

Be thine those feelings of the mind,
That wake to honor's, friendship's call;
Benevolence, that's unconfin'd,

Extends her lib'ral hand to all.

woes,

The heart that bleeds for othe
Shall feel each selfish sorrow less;
The breast that happiness bestows,
Reflected happiness shall bless.

AS benevolence is the most social of all virtues, so it is of the largest extent; for there is not any man, either so great or so little, but he is yet capable of receiving benefits.

The greatest benefits of all, have no witness, but lie concealed in the conscience.

A kind benefactor makes a man happy as soon as he can, and as much as he can. There should be no delay in a benefit, but the mod

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