If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Isra...el, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find; But each man's secret standard in his mind,... That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who can gratify, for who can guess?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college, or a cat:... To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, T'enrich a bastard, or a son they hate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »