The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.

Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.

Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.

It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense,
to leave it to boys to enjoy read more

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense,
to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells.

So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells.

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.

He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.

He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.

In my integrity I'll wrap me up.

In my integrity I'll wrap me up.