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When XX was labouring with some big project I had rarely any decisive induction into it, in these moments his mind was shocked with interrogation, & I have applauded him for this mental reserve like the main spring of a machine that operates the more forcibly by retention. -- It argues a feebleness of mind ^ [[addition]] in Men [[/addition]] to be always blabbling & prating of their projects - the claim of freindship may be too voracious in these respects, & it is wise to reason yourself out of the expectation. -- consultation destroys the spring, the energy of action Lavater says, -- I love the heart to be its own minister in all the vibrating feels of conscience; there is a rhetoric in this kind of privy counsel which transcends the cold perhaps mercenary cautions of freindship
