Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing read more

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

Weight justly and sell dearely.

Weight justly and sell dearely.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could
he find it.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could
he find it.

How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
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How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!

'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied
with his own, as a matter read more

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied
with his own, as a matter of course.