XXIX. From some high place as it were to look down, and to behold
here flocks, and there sacrifices, without number; and all kind
of navigation; some in a rough and stormy sea, and some in a calm:
the general differences, or different estates of things, some, that are
now first upon being; the several and mutual relations of those things
that are together; and some other things that are at their last.
Their lives also, who were long ago, and theirs who shall be hereafter,
and the present estate and life of those many nations of barbarians
that are now in the world, thou must likewise consider in thy mind.
And how many there be, who never so much as heard of thy name, how many
that will soon forget it; how many who but even now did commend thee,
within a very little while perchance will speak ill of tbee.
So that neither fame, nor honour, nor anything else that this world
doth afford, is worth the while. The sum then of all; whatsoever doth
happen unto thee, whereof God is the cause, to accept it contentedly:
whatsoever thou doest, whereof thou thyself art the cause, to do
it justly: which will be, if both in thy resolution and in thy action
thou have no further end, than to do good unto others, as being that,
which by thy natural constitution, as a man, thou art bound unto.

XXX. Many of those things that trouble and straiten thee, it is in thy
power to cut off, as wholly depending from mere conceit and opinion;
and then thou shalt have room enough.

XXXI. To comprehend the whole world together in thy mind,
and the whole course of this present age to represent it
unto thyself, and to fix thy thoughts upon the sudden change
of every particular object. How short the time is from
the generation of anything, unto the dissolution of the same;
but how immense and infinite both that which was before