Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, 253. The necessity of mental cultivation. 29-i. 3. Now 't is the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now, and they 'll o'ergrow the garden, And choke the herbs for want of husbandry. • 22—iii. 1. For nature, crescent', does not grow alone 255. Mental deformity and virtue. 36-i. 3. In nature there 's no blemish, but the mind; 256. Mental passions, their effects. 4-iii. 4. The passions of the mind, That have their first conception by mis-dread, Have after-nourishment and life by care; And what was first but fear what might be dones, Grows elder now, and cares it be not donet. 33-i. 2. Conceit and grief an eager combat fight; What wit sets down, is blotted straight with will; Much like, a press of people at a door, Throng her inventions, which shall go before. Poems. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased; Increasing. But fear of what may happen. Raze out the written troubles of the brain, 259. Wisdom and learning. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, 15-v. 3. That will not be deep search'd with saucy looks; Save base authority from others' books. 260. Wisdom, superior to fortune. Wisdom and fortune combating together, 8-i. 1. 30-iii. 11 They say, miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern" and familiar things, supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear *. 11-ii. 3. 262. Reverence due to wisdom. Those that I reverence, those I fear; the wise: 263. Wisdom without action. Of your philosophy you make no use, 31-iv. 2. 29-iv. 3. To be generous, guiltless, and of free disposition, is to take those things for bird-bolts, that you deem cannon-bullets. There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet man, though he do nothing but reprove. 4-i. 5. 13 Ordinary. * Fear means here, the object of fear. y Short arrows. 265. Wise men superior to woes. Wise men ne'er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail. To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, 266. Every place a home to the wise. All places, that the eye of heaven visits, Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, O, what men dare do! what men may men daily do! not knowing what they do! By how much unexpected, by so much 17-i. 3. 11—i. 1. do! what 6-iv. 1. 16-ii. 1. Let me take away the harms I fear, 34-i. 4. Turn head, and stop pursuit: for coward dogs Most spend their mouthsa, when what they seem to 22-iii. 1. 273. Cowards. The valiant. Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. 29-ii. 2. What valour were it, when a cur doth grin, 275. Patience and cowardice compared. 23-i. 4. That which in mean men we entitle-patience, 276. Knowledge to be communicated. 17-i. 2. That man-how dearly ever parted, 26-iii. 3. The beauty that is borne here in the face, Till it hath travell'd, and is married there, No man is the lord of anything 26-iii. 3. (Though in and of him there be much consisting), Till he communicate his parts to others: Nor doth he of himself know them for aught, Till he behold them form'd in the applause, b Excellently endowed. Where they're extended; which, like an arch, re verberates The voice again; or, like a gate of steel, Fronting the sun, receives and renders back Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds 26-iii. 3. 22-v. 2. The sleeping, and the dead, Are but as pictures: 't is the eye of childhood, 15-ii. 2. Fear, and be slain; no worse can come, to fight: 282. Furiousness of fear. 17-iii. 2. Is, to be frighted out of fear: and, in that mood, When valour preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with. 30-iii. 11. The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed, 284. The effects of fear and sloth. Ebbing men, Most often do so near the bottom run, 285. Timidity and self-confidence. Poems. 1-ii. 1. Blind Fear, that seeing Reason leads, finds safer footing than blind Reason stumbling without Fear. 26-iii. 2. • Ostrich. |