Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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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.

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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest

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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

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