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Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the
aged.
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the
aged.
To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.
To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.
Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.
Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly
gratifying.
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly
gratifying.
Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.
Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.
If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.
If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
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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.
Councell breakes not the head.
Councell breakes not the head.
Long jesting was never good.
Long jesting was never good.
