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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
Man, but for that no action could attend,
And, but for this, were active to no end:
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void,
Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made,
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade,
The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd,
The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
