There is no State of Life without a Mixture in’t of Good and Evil; and
the Highest Pitch of Fortune is not without Dangers, Cares, and Fears.
This Doctrine is Verify’d by Examples Innumerable, through the Whole
History of the World, and that the Mean is Best, both for Body, Mind, and
Estate. Pride is not only Uneasie, but Unsafe too, for it has the Power
and Justice of Heaven, and the Malicious Envy of Men to Encounter at the
same Time; and the _Axe_ that Cuts down the _Fir_, is Rightly Moraliz’d
in the Stroke of _Divine Vengeance_, that brings down the _Arrogant_,
while the _Bramble_ Contents it self in its Station: That is to say;
Humanity is a Vertue, that never goes without a Blessing.