Temp'rate in every place, abroad, at home. Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
George Crabbe
The worst men often give the best advice. BAILEY _Festus,_ Sc. _A Village Feast._ 'Twas good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
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Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth.
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In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.
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Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song. POPE: Satire i., Bk. Ii., Line 76. But 't was a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.
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Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
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To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat
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Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved
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Feed the musician, and he's out of tune
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Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way
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To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
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And took for truth the test of ridicule.
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In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
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With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
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Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.
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