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MAXIME CLXXVIII.
To believe the Heart, and especially if it be a presaging Heart.
It is never to be contradicted: for it is accustomed to prognosticate what most concern us. It is a Domestick Oracle. Many have perished, because they were too diffident of themselves. But to what end should one distrust himself, if he look not out for the remedy? Some have a heart that tells them every thing: a cer∣tain mark of a rich stock. For that heart always prevents them, and rings the allarum Bell upon the approach of evils, to make them fly to the remedy. It is not the part of a wise man to go out and receive evils, but to be before-hand with them and disperse them.