an should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let
the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is
ashamed.[26]

_Selden._

[26] See 406.

467.

Men's minds are generally ingenious in palliating guilt in
themselves.

_Livy._

468.

Prosperity is acquired by exertion, and there is no fruit for him
who doth not exert himself: the fawns go not into the mouth of a
sleeping lion.

_Hitopadesa._

469.

Wickedness, by whomsoever committed, is odious, but most of all in
men of learning; for learning is the weapon with which Satan is
combated, and when a man is made captive with arms in his hand his
shame is more excessive.

_Sa'di._

470.

He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money may be
rich; so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks may by chance be
satirically witty. Honesty sometimes keeps a man from growing rich,
and civility from being witty.

_Selden._

471.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what
they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a
competence.

_R. Chamberlain._

472.

Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from
idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

_Plutarch._

473.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of
failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him
for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

_Bharavi._

474.

First think, and if thy thoughts approve thy will,
Then speak, and after, what thou speak'st fulfil.

_Randolph._

475.

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into
effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of
thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may
be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

_Coleridge._

476.

Patience is the chiefest fruit of stud