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Should you feel inclined to censure
Faults you may in others view,
Ask your own heart, 'ere you venture,
If that has not failings too
Let not friendly vows be broken;
Rather strive a friend to gain;
Many a word in anger spoken,
Finds its passage home again.
Do not then in idle pleasure
Trifle with a brother's fame,
Guard it as a valued treasure,
Sacred as your own good name.
Do not form opinions blindly;
Hastiness to trouble tends.
Those of whom we thought unkindly
Oft become our warmest friends. |
