Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	love_n	love_v	soul_n	2,542	5	5.7443	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25788	Instructions to a son by Archibald, late Marquis of Argyle ; written in the time of his confinement.	Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of, 1598-1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing A3657; ESTC R28303	37,986	188

but some have thought him honest and loved him either the ignorance the envy or the partiality of those that judge do constitute a various man in some report hath foreblinded Judgment in some accident is the cause of disposing us to love or hate The soul is often led by secrete uninvestigable ways and motions to love she knows not why But 't is time alone and long probation which seldome fail to give right information when Nature Art and Report may deceive you Every man may keep his mind if he lists in a Labyrinth T is a room by us inscrutable into which Nature has made no certain window but as he himself shall please to give you light which is in such transient glimmerings that it rarely strikes any thing but the eye leaving us immediately to grope again in the dark I remit you to your own experience you have converst in the world troublesome enough for many years with all sorts and all humours of persons but for your better guidance herein I shall give you these properties of friendship which my longer observation hath found to be true characters of it He who is really your friend will give you Counsel before you ask it and that 's the reason a man cannot keep a friend by constraint nor oblige secrecy by coercion Most men regard their profit and therefore use their friends as men use beasts carefully attend and look to them from whom they receive increase and advantages and so deny themselves and want the most desirable fruition in the world which is natural and reciprocal amity which all the creatures maintain among themselves and yet know not nor are able to consider what and how great the force of that friendship is for every one loves it self not out of hope of any reward and recompence to it self for it but because of the nearness and dearness it owes it self Which if the samething be not done in friendship it is impossible to find a true friend He that loves you extremely will hate you most deadly therefore sober moderate friendship is the best and since friends must be had if your happiness be to find good ones beware you incur not that unhappiness of changing them Remember that he is in the best condition who is best furnished with the best men for his friends nevertheless let no obligation to them make you dispence with your Conscience or Religion have always a care not to trust any thing to your most intimate privado but what you cannot keep from time A small distast will discover those faults which a heap of years have covered 'T was Bias his Counsel that men should so love as if every day were a renewed enmity and not to affect repentance Let no man which is the chief law of friendship command any thing of you which is not lawful or which is not within your power nor do you use friends as men use flowers smell to them as long as fresh and green and fragrant and then lay them aside for so commonly friendships conciliated by interest or fancy usually terminate Beware especially of mercenary love when your money fails that leaves you when true affection follows beyond the grave Your vertues will make and get you friends throughout the world Love has Armes which will joyn the distant Corners of the universe out the good offices you do at home as they keep mens eyes upon them and serve as well as remembrancers will afford you a continued content Believe it nothing will gain you so much respect the first and best ingredient to friendship as your uprightness and sincerety greatness was always suspicious without any conspicuous proofs of a more then ordinary integrity nor will true glory wait long on a false person observance is her maidof honour what recommendation she gives must be founded on desert In a word chuse such friends as I have left you they will be the more yours because of your own affiance to them and so you will have a double interest in them your election and mine CHAP. V. Of Travel THis is in some men a humour and curiosity only in others wisedome and design and accordingly they make their different returns it hath been all along the practise of this Nation and with very good successe to go to a forraign war is rather a transplantation then travel passing only out of the bounds of one Country into the confinements and limits of another so I reckon I have said nothing to you concerning this subject in my maximes of war and I cannot conceive any better divertisement besides the advantage it will afford you for your present condition Homer begins his Odysseis in the praise of Ulysses with this title and character Qui mores hominum multorum vidit urbes as the most apparentest demonstration of his wisedome Some men there are that have seen more with their eye then some ambitious Princes did ever comprehend in their thoughts 'T is a pleasure and felicity when the mind embraces but a glancing thought of the beauteous fabrick of the universe and is with a kind of delight transported to some peculiar part of it whose felicity and pleasures or wealth have won upon its running fancy if this be so in the imagination what delight and fruition is there in the corporal view and passage and abode in the most remarkable countries of the world Men expect rich returns in East-India Ships and men that are far travellors beget great expectation of their wealth if they come home empty they bankrupt their Credit and dye in their Countries debt and that narrow dark prison of their pride buries them in utter oblivion who might have made the wide world their Monument The story of the wandring Jew was a pleasant fiction the punishment consisted only in his not having a Centre and certainly he could as well want it as the rest of his Nation The moral would hint what an improved man must he be who hath so often gone the Circumference crost the Lines and visited the most remote and abstruse corners of the world seen so many varieties in Nature and Providence reconciled by the tract of time One Journey will shew a man more then twenty descriptions relations or maps what a desolate life do Tortoises live who cannot be rid of their shells No man can endure confinement and he that hath lived lock'd up in one Kingdome is but a degree beyond a Country-man who was never out of the bounds of his parish Nevertheless all men are not fit for travel wise men are made better and fools worse This inquires after nothing but the gue-gaws the antick-fashions and gestures of other lands and becomes the shame of all Nations by disgracing his own in carrying nothing of worth or esteem from thence and by bringing censure and imputation upon forraign places where he conversed by importing nothing but their vices They vent abroad their domestick vices and utter here them beyond sea