Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	faith_n	life_n	word_n	4,700	5	4.1090	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33571	Cocker's morals, or, The muses spring-garden adorned with many sententious disticks & poems in alphabetical order : fitted for the use of all publick and private grammar and writing schools, for the scholars of the first to turn into Latin, and for those of the other to transcribe into all their various and curious hands / by Edward Cocker.	Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675.	1675 (1675)	Wing C4843A; ESTC R29228	23,067	74

Inconstancie A lofty Countenance a Soul far more sublime God gave Man Heav'n to view and its vast height to climb All you that would Write fair mind this Design Still to improve in every Word and Line Here hast makes wast of Paper Ink and Time And something in Opinion more Sublime The All-commanding Coin and who would wast All these at once by making too much hast Aim at Arts Altitude aspire ascend Acquire assume accomplish and amend Actions Superlatively Excellent Render their noble Authors Eminent Arithmetick let a Man understand And after that Geometry command Then let him turn Astronomer and prove How many Stars are fix'd how many move Next a Geographer Earths Globe survey The long-sought unfound Longitude Display Apollo's Lyre next let him take in hand And all the high Soul-charming Aires command Yea let him have all Arts all are but Smoke To him that has no mony in his Poke B BY sad Experience this is known to some Who hate Instruction to Destruction come Bad Company as Pestilential Aire You 'd shun did you but know how bad it were Brave and Heroick are the Acts of those Who no man better than themselves suppose Before you undertake consider well And then resolve next in Dispatch excel Be wise betimes and strive in all that 's thine That evermore the Golden Mean may shine By Pen or Pensil who to mortal Eye Can represent Immense Eternity By squeesing Wax and their Names writing some From wealth to want cavete soon have come Brave Virtues Emanations charm the Eyes Of all that are sincerely Good and Wise Best Precepts are Examples for some teach By words what their best Actions cannot reach Yet though like Trumpeters they do not fight They others to the Battail do excite Beware of that sly Sycophant's Dogg-Tricks Who like a Spanniel flatters fawns and licks But small though seeming great will prove the prize That is obtain'd by Falsities and Lies By verbal sounds who makes his small parts famous But proves himself the greater Ignoramus Before Time calls to the dark silent Grave What we can do doth our Attention crave Behave your self neither too low nor high But so as best Suits with your Quality But Thirty and two Points the Sea-man finds Upon his Compass thousands have Mens minds Be good to all Men to the best be best Court Peace with no contentious Men contest Beasts by their Horns or Ears are taken when More to their harm Men by their Tongues take Men. Boast not of Features or a smooth clear skin But make your Gallant mind fair Virtues Inn. Be still a Lover of ingenious Pains For still the working hand the Penny gains Best of Examples with the best Direction Bring Learning-Loving-Learners to perfection Boreas tall Cedars buffets but low Shrubs Secure below defie his furious rubs By all Ingenious Men this is confest The way to Write best is to Read the best Be not like him who so far vainly strays That he 's asham'd to leave his wicked VVays But here and there we find a hopeful Lad That has no Inclination to be bad But here and there grows an Ingenious Plant That minds his Learning knowing Learnings want But what Arithmetician can compute The thousand part of Plants that bear no Fruit Blind Ignorance clear Informations need Let doubtful minds sound confirmations heed Brave Spirits when their Fortunes lowest run Should greatest seem like the declining Sun Baccus his Cheeks with laughing are full blown To see Men to such height of Folly grown By drinking others healths to lose their own But Sure the Great Creator of the Vine Never intended his heart-chearing Wine On purpose to transform Men into Swine Before you Set those brave Examples which The Christal Mirrours of the world appear By imitating Them your Self Inrich And prove another Star in Virtues Sphear This is the way base Vice to trample down And gain those Virtues which may gain Renown By Diligence we gain Intelligence Experience followes Source of Excellence Behold how Fortunes billowes curle and swell Mounting to Heav'n then plunging down to Hell Birth rears Man's Fabrick of Flesh Bones and Skin But Breeding furnishes the House within Beyond the Golden Mean strive not to go His wants are boundless whose desires are so C COunt that day lost whose low-descending Sunne Views from your hand no noble Action done Clear-sighted Reason and Sublimest Sence Submit their Crowns to Wisdoms Influence Contend not with a Man of greater power By Land and Sea the Great the Less devour Crown the Donations of thy Friends with Praise On thy own Donatives no Trophies raise Censure none rashly for not even the best Can humane Nature of her Faults devest Contend with none hotly with none debate But that a short War may long Peace create Compendious Sentences in those may breed To Virtue love who cannot Volumes read Can you believe it Scarce unless you see 't That a man's Tongue should bind his hands and feet Could we our passions and our vain Affections bridle We should not as we are be so extreamly idle Constancy brings forth Custome Custome grows Into a habit from whence Wisdom flows Close Secrecy and wary Subtilty Both Handmaids are to humane Policy Contaminated Minds mind Mundane things But Minds Serene mount with Celestial wings Common it is for men to loose their Reins To pleasures till those pleasures prove their pains Count God's Eternal WORD thy noblest Treasure Which read and practic'd yields Eternal pleasure CHRIST's Rules of Life will your Lifes life improve With Faith Truth Zeal Humilitie and Love Could blind Ambition Honours fate fore-see She would with gladness court a mean Degree Contentment's an Exhaustless Mine of Treasure Which Pens cannot compute no Lines lengths measure Chances and Changes Spring from providence Not from Vtopian Fortunes Influence Content who lives with Competent Estate Needs not to Court mens Love nor fear their hate The Worlds Grandees in higher Sphears do move Yet he 's more safe below than those Above Half what he has may with Contentment Serve While some in mid'st of Store contentless starve Cares seldome prove our Cures care not to care Cares oft prove Introductions to dispaire Clemency diffring Natures reconciles And melts down Grim Morosity with Smiles Courteous Behaviour and Expressions prudent Speak a young Man in Virtues School a Student Columens who cannot raise nor lofty Towers May Somthing build according to their powers Could we behold fair Virtues lovely Face And the Celestial Beauty of true Grace We should be All Enamour'd but we are Blind to all Heavenly Objects and our Care And the main Tendency of our Imployments Is the possession of Earths vain Enjoyments D DElight makes Man so light that he supposes When on sharp thorns he treads he trips on Roses Did Learners know how learning might advance Them they would love it and hate Ignorance Diligence gains Intelligence and they Experience gain to all rare Arts the way Despise not the least peice of