[711:9] Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle.—Du Bartas: Divine Weekes and Workes, part ii. Second Weeke.
Not presuming to put my sickle in another man's corn.—Nicholas Yonge: Musica Transalpini. Epistle Dedicatory. 1588.
[712:1] See Shakespeare, page [136].
[712:2] Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.—Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, ii. 5.
[712:3] See Shakespeare, page [45].
[712:4] You may as well expect pears from an elm.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. book ii. chap. xl.
[712:5] See Washington, page [425].
[712:6] The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.—Plutarch: Of the Tranquillity of the Mind.
[712:7] In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.—Epictetus: That everything is to be undertaken with circumspection, chap. xv.
[713:1] Syrus was not a contemporary of Franklin.