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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57878	Rules for conversation, or A collection of moral maxims and reflections. By a Roman Catholick	Roman Catholick.	1686 (1686)	Wing R2254; ESTC R218492	18,251	111

RULES FOR CONVERSATION OR A Collection Of Moral Maxims and Reflections By a Roman Catholick LONDON Printed for J. Eaglesfield at the Marigold over against the Globe-Tavern in Fleet-Street 1686. ADVERTISEMENTS THere is newly published a Farce as it hath been Play'd before the King and Queen called The Devil of a Wife or a Comical Transformation As also Rules for Conversation or a Collection of Moral Maxims and Reflections Likewise a new Book Entituled Latine Songs with their English and Poems Chevy-Chace turn'd into Latine by Order of the Bishop of London By Henry Bold formerly of N. Coll. in Oxon afterwards of the Examiners Office in Chancery These Printed for John Eaglesfield Bookseller at the Marigold near Salisbury-Court in Fleetstreet THE EPISTLE TO THE READER Reader THE following Observations are most of them certain Rules and Axioms which diverse great good Men have used in their Conversations to their no small honour and advantage and they may be of the same use to thee if well digested and with Prudence reduced to practise They are true and a small Experience will tell you so The more thoughts you spend on each particular the better wilt thou like them for my own part I fear no Censure of the Book or its Author since I am resolved not to be known Judg as thou pleasest perhaps thou mayest have Read several of them where I did I think it no criminal theft to write what hath been written though the Author be not Named for that which I approve is my own in such case besides I make no claim the greater Number are a Collection as the Title speaks however of this I am sure they all are or may be useful some of them are Common and obvious yet the advantage of considering and using them may never be the less others may seem alike and to the same purpose but on Second thoughts they 'l yeild different Precepts Others may seem contradictory but if reduced to particulars for use they 'l appear otherwise There may be many more added and much more Material but nihil simul inceptum est perfectum and time perhaps may increase the number of these In the Interim take what follows they being first Collected for private use are now Published for the Booksellers Benefitand Thine which if attained I am Content A COLLECTION OF Moral Maxims and Reflections I. NO Man is ever so Happy or so Miserable in this Life as he does Imagine himself to be II. The Happiness and Misery of Men depends as much on their Humour and the temper of their Mind as on their Fortune and Condition in the World III. Always put more confidence in those who have obliged you then in those that you have obliged for the former are more likely to do you a further kindness then the latter to acknowledg or requite what they have received IV. The contempt of Riches in the Philosophers was only a secret to prevent that contempt which attends Povertie V. He that councels others to be Virtuous doubles his obligation to be so Himself VI. By trifles are the qualities of Men as well discovered as by great Actions for in the latter they are many times strained and in the former more Natural VII A Generous Man least regards Mony but when he hath it not he wants it most VIII In any great Action he that will be his own Counceller shall be sure to have a Fool for his Clyent IX Nothing is of more Importance in all a Mans Behaviour then to know how to take an advantage when offered X. He that Winks at his own Faults thinks all the World Blind XI What you are to do advise with many what you are resolved to do communicate but to few XII No Man in Prudence will threaten when he hath any thing to Desire XIII When a Man is compelled to do an Act 't is most commonly best for him to seem to do it Frankly and without Constraint XIV He that will improve his Memory must not too much distrust it XV. To be a Judge of Neighbours Differences is dangerous and always makes one or both Eenemies XVI The readiest way to be deceived is for a Man to beleive himself more subtile and clear sighted then other Men. XVII Fancy and Chance lift most to Employments XVIII When Men Eminen and Worthy are preferred their Fortune seems due and no Man Envys the payment of a debt XIX Valour is a Quality which he that hath shall have least need of XX. A Bashful Man is not his own Master XXI He that will be safe in troublesome times must 1. Engage in no Faction and 2. Favour and releive the lowest for the first preserves kindness with the present and the second prepares against the Future XXII Such as have respect only to a few things are easily misled XXIII He that understands amiss concludes worse XXIV He that will be truly Charitable should give to poor House-keepers as do not receive Alms of the Parish for to give to those is only to save so much Money to the Rich who by Law are bound to releive the Poor XXV Many glorious Actions that make a noise in the World as the Effects of a wise Design are produced only by Humour and Passion XXVI We should not take delight in observing the faults of others if we had none of our own XXVII We disparage Eavourites and Men advanced in the World from Pride and Love of Favour and the contempt we testifie against such preferments serves only to mitigate our own greif for not obtaining the like XXVIII We have commonly more Strength then Will and we imagine things impossible as an excuse to our selves for our own Laziness XXIX What passeth for Sincerity in the World is often-times but dissimulation to attract the Confidence of others XXX Men blame the faults of others rather to perswade of their own Innocence then with a real design of Reformation XXXI Men discover an abhorrenge of Lying very often with a design to gain Credit to what they say themselves and Render their own Testimony the more Considerable XXXII Prosperity makes us known to others whether we are what we seem to be Adversity makes others known to us whether they are in reality what they seem in Profession XXXIII They who Addict themselves to little things with too much Application are seldome capable of any grand undertaking XXXIV He that begins an affair without Judgment and is hasty in the prosecution must not wonder if it want Success XXXV He that is discouraged from a worthy design meerly upon the account of diffity hath a mean Spirit XXXVI Be Liberal to your Friends of your discourse and your purse but beware of being bound for more then you are willing to give for he that is surely know's not what he is worth XXXVII He that sets his Mind and Affections on things supersluous is commonly reduced to want those which are necessary XXXVIII On many occasions without scruple one may refuse