280 SELECT POETRY

Distrust mankind, with your own heart confer,
And dread even there to find a flatterer.

Young.

 

Duty by habit is to pleasure turned ;
He is content who to obey has learned.
Sir Egerton Brydges.

 

To thine own woes he not thy thoughts confined ;
But go abroad and think of all mankind.
Id.

 

Sap.
Firm in resolve by sterling worth to gain
Love and respect, thou shalt not strive in vain.

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The skies, the air, the morning’s breezy call,
Alike are free, and full of health, to all.
la

 

He fails who pleasure makes his prime pursuit:
For pleasure is of duty done the fruit.
Id

 

It is a virtue to improve the mind ;
‘And if for trath we labour we shall find.
Id

 

By exercise our skill and courage grows
And that which once was scanty, overflows. Ia.