- When you consult the oracle, or those
Who the deep secrets of the gods disclose,79 lines - Laughter, if rightly us'd, may be confest
In some sort to distinguish man from beast,17 lines - Nature's designs, decrees, and will we read
In things, concerning which we're all agreed,23 lines - Avoid th' engagement of an oath, or swear,
As seldom as you can, at least forbear9 lines - When you're inform'd that any one thro' spight
Or an ill-natur'd, scurrilous delight11 lines - Avoid, if possible, th' impertinence
Of those who prostitute their eloquence:31 lines - As in a voyage, when you at anchor ride,
You go on shore fresh water to provide;30 lines - Having consider'd thus what's to be done,
The hazards, hardships, and the risque you run,64 lines - Let modest silence by your greatest care
In human conversation, and beware32 lines - Among your friends with whom you may be free
If vain, or frivolous their converse be,12 lines - When Fancy then with her black train appears,
Of difficulties, dangers, hardships, fears,13 lines - With our aversions and desires doth rise
A smiling twin-born hope, whose flatteries17 lines - Wish not that things, not in your pow'r, may run
As you would have them; wish them as they're done;21 lines - As no man sets up marks that he may miss,
So no such real thing as ill there is:42 lines - In this the main Point of Religion lies,
To have right Notions of the Deities;99 lines - If with civility you can, decline
All public feasts, and learn at home to dine21 lines - Therefore be sure that thy aversion fall
Only on things which thou thy own may'st call,18 lines - While on this busy stage, the world you stay,
You're, as it were the actor of a play;16 lines - There's no great need that you should oft appear
At shews, or help to crowd the theatre.32 lines - You say you'd win the olive crown, and lust
To reap the harvest of th' Olympick dust;59 lines - Frame to yourself some forms, some rules whereby
To guide your life, on which to keep your eye,16 lines - Before you're married, strive to live as free
As possibly you can from venery;36 lines - Be not transported with too great a sense
Of any outward object's excellence;26 lines - In ev'ry thing that happens search you mind
And try what force, what faculties you find28 lines - Let death, let banishment, and ev'ry ill,
Which mortals thoughts with apprehension fill,25 lines - Unjustly men of nature's laws complain,
As cause of all their misery and pain.30 lines - Not he that beats thee, or with sland'rous tongue
Gives thee ill language, doth thee any wrong;23 lines - If to please others, studying to be dear
In their kind thoughts, you move beyond your sphere11 lines - With men 'tis usual, when depriv'd of ought
Which with much pleasure entertain'd the thought,23 lines - If you would be invincible, you may;
I'll shew you a certain and ready way.7 lines
