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To Theophrastus 5.
A Sudden Injury is better then a slow benefit, for the remem∣brance and harme of that lasts but a little while, but this groweth old, as if it hated to build a work to perpetuity, and many times deferring what we intend to bestow upon another, he meets with a calm else-where which allaies the tempest of his mind. Wherefore I say, mutuall society ought not onely to do no wrong, but, if any be received, to be ready to forgive it; for perhaps to do no wrong is above the power of Man. As for him who hath erred, to make use of reproof, is the property of a good well-seated Judgement.