70.

Have you ever seen a vulgar mind warm or humble or a proud one that could love? Where pride begins, love ceases. As love, so humility. As both, so the still real power of man.

(Pride may love.)

71.

Everything may be mimicked by hypocrisy, but humility and love united. The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night. The more rare humility and love united, the more radiant when they meet.

(All this may be mimicked very well. This aphorism certainly was an oversight, for what are all crawlers but mimickers of humility and love?)

73.

The

Modesty is silent when it would not be improper to speak. humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

(Uneasy.)

78.

The wrath that, on conviction, subsides into mildness is the wrath of a generous mind.

80.

Thousands are hated, while none are ever loved, without real cause. The amiable alone can be loved.

81.

He who is loved and commands love when he corrects or is the cause of uneasiness must be loveliness itself; and

82.

He who can love him in the moment of correction is the most amiable of mortals.

83.

He to whom you may tell anything may see everything and will betray nothing.

(The above five are underlined by Blake.)

86.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he who is free makes free.

(Rather uneasy.)

92.

Who instantly does the best that can be done, what no other could have done, and what all must acknowledge to be the best, is a genius and a hero at once.

(Uneasy.)

93.

The discovery of truth by slow progressive meditation is wisdom. Intuition of truth not preceded by perceptible meditation is genius. (Underlined by Blake.)

94.

The degree of genius is determined by its velocity, clearness, depth, simplicity, copiousness, extent of glance (coup d'œil), and instantaneous intuition of the whole at once.

(Copiousness of glance !)

96.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity. (I doubt this.)

97.

He only who can give durability to his exertions has genuine power and energy of mind.

(Uneasy: sterling.)

98.

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of durability, for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.

(Uneasy: sterling.)

99.

Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

(Underlined by Blake.)

107.

Who takes from you ought to give in his turn, or he is a thief. I distinguish taking and accepting, robbing and receiving. Many give already by the mere wish to give, their still unequivocal wish of improvement and gratitude, while it draws from us, opens treasures within us that might have remained locked up even to ourselves.

(Noble and generous.)

114.

Who writes as he speaks, speaks as he writes, looks as he speaks and writes, is honest.

(Underlined by Blake.)

124.

Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies. (Contrary to No. 39, but most true.)

141.

Many trifling inattentions, neglects, indiscretions, are so many unequivocal proofs of dull frigidity, hardness, and extreme egotism.

(Rather uneasy.)

150.

As your enemies and your friends so are you.

(Very uneasy.)

151.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are characters decidedly bad. (Uneasy. I fear I have not many enemies.)

157.

Say not you know another till you have divided an inheritance with him.

(!) (Underlined by Blake.)

163.

Who at the pressing solicitation of bold and noble confidence hesitates one moment before he consents, proves himself at once inexorable. (Uneasy. I don't believe it.)

164.

Who at the solicitations of cunning, self-interest, or impudence hesitates one moment before he refuses, proves himself at once a silly giver.

(Uneasy.)

168.

Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.

(Rather uneasy.)

170.

I am prejudiced in favour of him who can solicit boldly without impudence. He has faith in human nature.

176.

As a man's salutation, so the total of his character. In nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

K

177.

Be afraid of him who meets you with a friendly aspect and in the midst of a flattering salutation avoids your direct, open look.

(The above three underlined by Blake.)

185.

All flattery is a sign of littleness.

(Not always.)

190.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

(Bravo!)

191.

There are more heroes than saints (heroes I call rulers over the minds and destinies of men)-more saints than humane characters. Him who humanises all that is within and around himself adore. I know but of one such by tradition.

(Sweet.)

193.

Who seeks those that are greater than himself, their greatness enjoys, and forgets his greatest qualities in their greater ones, is already truly great.

(I hope I do not flatter myself that this is pleasant to me.)

215.

The friend of order has made half his way to virtue. (Underlined by Blake.)

216.

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once. repose of minds.

(Rather uneasy.)

232.

Wisdom is the

The connoisseur in painting discovers an original by some great line, though covered with dust and disguised by daubing, so he who studies man discovers a valuable character by some original trait, though unnoticed, disguised, or debased. Ravished at the discovery, he feels it his duty to restore it to its own genuine splendour. Him who in spite of contemptuous pretenders has the boldness to do this, choose for your friend.

(The last sentence underlined by Blake.)

234.

Who writes what he should tell, and dares not tell what he writes, is either like a wolf in sheep's clothing, or like a sheep in a wolf's skin. (Some cannot tell what they can write, though they dare.)

238.

Know that the great art to love your enemy consists in never losing sight of the man in him. Humanity has power over all that is human. The most in human man still remains man, and never can throw off all taste for what becomes a man. But you must learn to wait.

(None can see the man in the enemy. If he is ignorantly so, he is not truly an enemy,—if maliciously, not a man. I cannot love my enemy, for my enemy is not a man. But I can love him as a beast, and wish to beat him.)

243.

He who welcomes the look of the good is good himself. (Underlined by Blake.)

244.

I know deists whose religiousness I venerate, and atheists whose honesty and nobleness of mind I wish for, but I have not yet seen the man who could have tempted me to think him honest who publicly acted the Christian whilst privately he was a positive deist.

(Bravo!) (The last two lines underlined by Blake.)

246.

He who laughed at you till he got to your door, flattered you as you opened it, felt the force of your argument while he was with you, applauded when he rose, and after he went away blasts you, has the most indisputable title to an archdukedom in hell.

(Such a one I could never forgive whilst he continued such a one.) (All underlined, though irregularly, by Blake.)

251.

Ask not only, "Am I hated?" but, "by whom?"- "Am I loved?" but "why?" As the good love thee, the bad will hate thee.

(Uneasy.) The last sentence underlined by Blake.)

262.

Who can act or perform as if each work or action were the first, the last, and only one in his life, is great.

(Underlined by Blake.)