Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	advantage_n	great_a	part_n	1,014	5	3.9894	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26441	Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life.		1664 (1664)	Wing A634; ESTC R28931	72,943	217

will prove my Crown I will therefore smart and smile LXXXI He that spends more than he needs may need what he spends Prodigality is the greatest folly no wonder if he that wasts wants he is the wise man who in plenty provides for a day of scarcity and layes up for a wet day that lives within himself saving is the best way of getting all is sure gain it is good walking with a Horse in ones hand what is the end of profuseness but a Prison or a Halter LXXXII To be over frugal argues a poor and mean spirit such are good to none not to others nor to themselves a man hath but what he enjoyes for any thing more he is not much the better what we make use of is only ours the rest signifies little and is little less anothers as I would not be lavish so neither will I live so much below my fortunes as to be their slave I abhor what is base and beggerly and scorn more a person of a poor spirit than the poorest person LXXXIII That falls out sometimes in a day which never fell out before it does not follow what never was shall never be unlikely things are brought to pass and who can tell what may happen what alterations have I seen such as no ear till now hath heard of who could imagine the changes which of late have been it is not mine only but the Worlds wonder what hath been may be I will not then presume here is nothing constant neither can I be certain of any thing LXXXIV Avoid sloath if thou wouldst avoid scorn shame is the reward of a sluggard idleness will bring thee to want and beggary there is nothing of price and value but what is purchased by sweat and pains they are pebbles not pearls which are to be had for stooping gold is not got by gaping nor honour without toyle and hazard it is working earns the wages and running wins the race fighting makes way for conquest and conquest for the triumph without striving is got neither gold nor glory LXXXV As you season the Vessel so it smells bend the Twig while it is young the soft Wax will take any impression but delay may make that difficult which was at first easie it is better dealing with a child than with custom let the seed be good thou sowest or Weeds will be all thy Crop the ground will bring forth Wheat or Tares upon thy husbandry very much depends thy harvest LXXXVI It is as unreasonable as dangerous to defer amendment till we can sin no more no thanks then sin leaves us not we sin shall we spend the day in the Devils drudgery and put off God with the evening shall Satan have the flower and God have the bran he that deserves all surely deserves best we need not fear to begin too soon that cannot do too much I never heard of any good too young or too good LXXXVII It is as ridiculous as unreasonable to put off Repentance to old age what a folly is it to leave the hardest work to the weakest time we shall find it work enough then to grapple with our distempers disease enough to do to dye besides though true Repentance is never too late yet late Repentance is seldom true LXXXVIII He that will divulge his own secrets never trust with thine how can he that is false to himself be true to thee neither is any fit to make a friend who hath not this retentive faculty it were folly in any to make such a choice and the greatest treachery to betray wherein there is imposed confidence I think no wrack can force me to commit this unpardonable sinne I will not know what I may not keep but will keep what I know LXXXIX There is nothing I more abhor than a backbiter this is the very worst of Vermine these the incendiaries and fire-brands of a Nation the Salamanders that live in the flames it is a cowardly part to come behind and below a man of mettal I will scorn to take any advantage of my greatest enemy he shall see the blow when I strike it and before he feels it neither will I make a party against a single person it is childish to complain what hath another to do with my wrong besides the injustice to condemn without witness or at least confession evidence cannot be taken but face to face he that passeth any other sentence is a Murderer not a Judge XC Blame not another wherein thou art blame-worthy thou canst not accuse him but thou dost shame thy self in his fault thou mayst see thy own the same Glass will discover both thy face and his you are cast by your own confession and condemned out of your own mouth should I reprove and be guilty my Conscience would check me no less for hypocrisie than for the Crime I enveigh against neither is a party a competent Witness XCI I have read of those that have laughed till they have dyed but have seen some laugh till they have cryed hence I conclude that mirth in its extream is madness I pity those who go merrily to execution and dye laughing give me that joy which ends not in tears that joy which hath no end why should I drink of puddle water when I may follow the stream to the Ocean XCII Hast thou a breathing time it is to fit thee for the next encounter do not think thy foes though they flee are fovled Satan hath his stratagems it is his craft to conceal his courage he is not routed when he retreats his flying is but in order to a further fighting and goes back only that he may return with greater force I will still stand upon my guard lest I should be surprized an enemy is not to be trusted XCIII Do not depend too much upon prosperity Clouds may return the Sun may be eclipsed and the day overcast suppose the wind be now fair it may come cross and the gale against thee I have known some blown back to Sea when within sight of shore and others arrived at the Haven of a supposed happiness and mored at Anchor have I seen shipwrackt in the Harbour XCIV Conveniencies have their inconveniencies and comforts their crosses thousands have found sorrow from whence they looked for satisfaction and proportionable to the expectation is the disappointment the fear of losing what we have takes off much from the delight in enjoying besides creatures cannot perform as they promise us or we our selves why should I catch at a shadow or set my heart upon that which is not a Glass is not a Diamond it may cut but cannot content XCV Prepare for the worst the best will help it self if what thou fearest fall not out thou art made amends for thy lost labour fewer words cannot imply more folly than to say I never thought it were better to see and shun than to feel the stroak rather prevent than repent I will have my Armour ready though I do not use