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A26096 Six familiar essays upon marriage, crosses in love, sickness, death, loyalty and friendship written by a lady. Astell, Mary, 1668-1731. 1696 (1696) Wing A4066; ESTC R16320 41,222 124

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well as Gratitude since it many times excites those that hear us to be as kind but that proud heart who will not own his obligations to his friends does justly deserve to be contemned by every body and when he finds himself slighted upon that score it must be an aggravation to his misery to consider how much his own insensibility contributed to his ruine They who do their duties are the best prepared to undergo what we call the frowns of fortune and making a good use of their afflictions will find a happy end of them and enable us to be serene in those hurricanes of life that are apt to shock the steddiest brain where we can meet no haven of safety but in the hand of Divine Providence let us therefore wait patiently upon him till he pleases to make a turn in our affairs knowing that we can as much calm the raging of the Seas as alter his will Fretting at our Circumstances renders our Judgment less able to Act and decays our health a troubled water may grow clear without but never with stirring in it yet sorrow is scarce supportable alone therefore they are doubly wretched that have none to ease their mind in trouble and tho other people may be so barbarous to neglect or use them worse for what they suffer already if they have made a good choice in placing their friendship they need not apprehend such a treatment tho indeed there is so much baseness in this age that they ought to know them very well in whom they confide Some are incapable of keeping a secret their minds being like an unsealed letter it is not prudence to commit any thing of Consequence to them these are quickly to be found out and are as certainly dispised a cunning person is yet more dangerous for they pretend to design our interests whilst they promote their own tho it be to our destruction But religious persons will preserve their Faith inviolable to their friend and never disclose what they are intrusted with which gains them the esteem of all that knows it but if they had nothing paid them in return they will not fail to discharge a good conscience and not only conceal their friends concerns but account it a great felicity to be serviceable to them as without all doubt it is a much more substantial pleasure to give then to receive a favour a compassionate temper never sees another in discontent without bearing a part with him but friendship should carry us yet further and divide the care and grief equally betwixt us Nor shall you ever find me wanting in demonstrating the truth of what I have so often professed for I did not instance these maxims as things of course but because many of the rules suited with my own thoughts and I shall omit no opportunity to convince you that according to the strictest rules of Friendship I am Yours FINIS Books Printed for and Sold by Tho. 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