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 21  1. Chuse not for beauty. 2. Chụse not for dowry. 3. Chuse not for dignity He that looks for beauty, buys a picture. He that loves for dowry, makes a purchase. He that leaps for dignity, matches with a multitude at once. The first of these is too blind to be directed. The second, too base to be accepted. The third, too bold to be respected. 1. Chuse not by your eyes. 2. Chuse not by your hands 3. Chuse not by your ears. 1. Chase not by your eyes, looking at the beauty of the person. Not but this is lovely in a woman; but that this is not all for which a woman should be beloved. He that had the choice of many faces, stamps this cha- racter upon them all " Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain." The sun is more bright in a clear sky, than when the horizon is clouded; but if a woman's flesh hath more of beauty, than the spirit hath of Christianity, it is like poison in sweet-meats, most dan- gerous, Gen. vi. 2. " The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair," &c. One would have thought, that they should rather have looked for grace in the heart, than for beauty in the face. Take care of inning at the fairest signs; the swan hath black flesh under her white feathers. 2. Chase not by your hands for bounty of the portion. When Cato's daughter was asked, why she did not marry? she thus replyed, she could not find the man that loved her person