THE INSTRUCTOR.
What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
The Souls calm sun-shine, and the heart-felt joy,
Is Virtues Prize.
Honour and shame from no Condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Reflections and Maxims.
WE should fix in our minds such a grateful remembrance of the blessings we have received from heaven, that we may ever love to practise piety aud virtue. We should not so much regard what good a friend has done us, as how much he desired or endeavoured to do.
There is no living comfortably in the world without an exchange of civility. Without good-nature and gratitude, man had as good live in a wilderness as in civil society.
A mind well instructed bears patiently all kinds of adversity and misfortunes.
O man! live well, for all thy deeds will be known; God beholdeth thee with a just eye.
We must take our leave of our dearest friends, and bid a long farewell to all the world; only our good works will follow us.
We should desire very few things passionately, if we did but perfectly know the nature of the thing we desire.
