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 20 in the sands of delay, thousands have been split on the rock of precipitance. Rash adventures. yield little gain. Opportunities are not like tides, that when one is past, another returns, but yet take heed of flying without your wings: you may breed such agues in your bones, that may shake you to your graves. 1. Let me preserve you from a bad choice. 2. Present you with a good one. To preserve you from a bad choice, take that in three things 1. Choose not for beauty. 2. Choose not for dowry, 3. Choose not for dignity. He that loves 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. Choose not by your eyes. 2. Choose not by your hands. 3. Choose not by your cars. 1. Choose 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 ad the choice of many faces, stamps this charac- ter upon them all, “Favour is deceitful, and “beauty is vain." The sun is more bright in a clear sky, than when the horizon is cloud- ed; but if a woman's flesh hath more of beauty, than her spirit hath of Christianity, it is like poison in sweet meats, most dangerous, Gen. vi. 2. "The sons of God saw the daughters of “men, that they were fair." One would have thought that they should rather have looked for grace in the heart,' than for beauty in the