The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
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Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.