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[709-6] He that hath many irons in the fire, some of them will cool.--HAZLITT: _English Proverbs._

[710-1] See Heywood, page 14.

[710-2] The sea being smooth, How many shallow bauble boats dare sail Upon her patient breast.

SHAKESPEARE: _Troilus and Cressida, act i. sc. 3._

[710-3] See Cowper, page 419.

[710-4] Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur,--the motto adopted for the "Edinburgh Review."

[710-5] Practice makes perfect.--_Proverb._

[711-1] See Shakespeare, page 48.

[711-2] See Heywood, page 14.

[711-3] Yet do I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.--EURIPIDES: _Hercules Furens, line 281._

[711-4] It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.--PASCAL: _Thoughts, chap. iv. 1._

[711-5] See Milton, page 232.

[711-6] See Chaucer, page 3.

[711-7] When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.--PLUTARCH: _Of the Training of Children._

[711-8] No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.--JOHNSON: _The Rambler, p. 150._

[711-9] Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle.--DU BARTAS: _Divine Weekes and Workes,